The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONDreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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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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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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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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 Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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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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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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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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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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