Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTrust me not at all, or all in all.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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