Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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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, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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All things human change.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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