Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONRich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Love is the only gold.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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All things human change.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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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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