If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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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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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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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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