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?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOurs not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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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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Silence, beautiful voice.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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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Love is the only gold.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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 vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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