Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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