A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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?
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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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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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