If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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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