I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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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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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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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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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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