More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Ah, 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?
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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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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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