Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea.
Wisdom
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Truth
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Hope
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Life
'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Love
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Happiness
Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others.
Hope
And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
Wisdom
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Wisdom
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
Wisdom
I chatter, chatter, as I flow, To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Wisdom
Deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
Love
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
Wisdom
If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.
Hope
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
Wisdom
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Love
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Education
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
Wisdom
My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Love
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown.
Wisdom
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
Life