Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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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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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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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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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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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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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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