Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAh, 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?
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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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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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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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 louse in the locks of literature.
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