For love reflects the thing beloved.
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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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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All things human change.
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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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