Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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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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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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Love is the only gold.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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