The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMore things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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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.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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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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The quiet sense of something lost.
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