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 TENNYSONWhat the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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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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All things human change.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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