Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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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Love will conquer at the last.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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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.
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