I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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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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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and 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 am a part of all that I have met.
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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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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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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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