Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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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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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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