This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONGod gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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