I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOur echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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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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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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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