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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOurs not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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