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.
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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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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