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?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSpeak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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All things human change.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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