The shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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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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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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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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Silence, beautiful voice.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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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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