I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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Silence, beautiful voice.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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