Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI found Him in the shining of the stars.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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