The shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAh, 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?
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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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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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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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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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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