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.
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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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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All things human change.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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