Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI 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.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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