The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThis barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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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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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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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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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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