Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAh, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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God 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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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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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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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