Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONO love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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