A beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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