I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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Love is the only gold.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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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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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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