Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONBattering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Love is the only gold.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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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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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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