Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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All things human change.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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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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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Attain the unattainable.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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