So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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Authority forgets a dying king.
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God's finger touched him and he slept.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Faith lives in honest doubt.
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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
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He makes no friends who never made a foe.
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
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Better not be at all than not be noble.
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
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Love is the only gold.
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
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Either sex alone is half itself.
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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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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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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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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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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A day may sink or save a realm.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
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Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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