The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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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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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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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