I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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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Love will conquer at the last.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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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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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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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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