Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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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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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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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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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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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON







