It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThis barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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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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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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