God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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All things human change.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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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 shell must break before the bird can fly.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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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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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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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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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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