The quiet sense of something lost.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI 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.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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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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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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