Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Love will conquer at the last.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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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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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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