I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIf you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Love will conquer at the last.
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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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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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