There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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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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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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