He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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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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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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Silence, beautiful voice.
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Attain the unattainable.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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