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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

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The old order changes yielding place to new.

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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

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Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

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Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

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I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

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Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

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Love will conquer at the last.

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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O last regret, regret can die!

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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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Too much wit makes the world rotten.

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Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

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Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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