O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMy strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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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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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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