Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONNor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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All things human change.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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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.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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