If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTis not too late to seek a newer world.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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