Attain the unattainable.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSelf-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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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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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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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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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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