Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe shell must break before the bird can fly.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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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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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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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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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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