Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONFaith is believing what we cannot prove.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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Love is the only gold.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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I 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.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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