Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONWords, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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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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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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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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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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