Alfred Lord Tennyson on heaven
Alfred Lord Tennyson91 quotes“Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.”
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson The quiet sense of something lost.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Life is brief but love is LONG .
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson 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.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson 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?
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
John DonneJohn Donne If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert BrowningRobert Browning The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
NostradamusNostradamus True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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