Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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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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