Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIf you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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