The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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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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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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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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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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Attain the unattainable.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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