A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
I am a part of all that I have met.
experience part
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
experience world
truth honesty lies lie
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
lost
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
men nature darkness hands
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
nature red
No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
perseverance hard rock beat wave
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
power truth serve eternal god
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
life power
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
women men earth heaven hell worst
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
nature soul words
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