Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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Attain the unattainable.
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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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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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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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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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