Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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