A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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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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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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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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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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Attain the unattainable.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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