Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAs love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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