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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Things seen are mightier than things heard.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Love will conquer at the last.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson
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See with the eyes of love / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.
Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
John KeatsJohn Keats All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.
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Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.
RajneeshRajneesh People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
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