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.
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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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