Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON







