Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONNor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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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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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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