The quiet sense of something lost.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThis barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Attain the unattainable.
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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 happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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