There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHe makes no friend who never made a foe.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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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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Attain the unattainable.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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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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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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