A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONFor love reflects the thing beloved.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Love is the only gold.
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Attain the unattainable.
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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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