Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONBattering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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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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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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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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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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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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