Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and 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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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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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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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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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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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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