Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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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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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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