Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Action Despair Lose Myself Worry
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Greatness Rich Simplicity
Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Feeling Love One Liner Relationship Trust
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Deep Education Life One Liner Wisdom
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Cold Hate World
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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Eyes Future Hands Hope Lips Myself Night Waste
I am a part of all that I have met.
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Be Yourself Deep Myself One Liner Philosophy
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Eyes Herself Home Prayer Silence Spiritual
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Action Death Reason
The quiet sense of something lost.
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Lost One Liner Quiet
God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Death Fingers God Grief Touch
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Doubt One Liner Sun
I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Myself Self Love Soul
The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Heart Husband Loss Marriage Oneself Wife
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Forever Friendship Love Myself Romantic Walk
My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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Dream Life Love Men Myself
Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Forever Life Love One Liner
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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Break Fear Gratitude Life Myself Wings
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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Best Funny Heaven Hell Man Nature Women Worst
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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Absence Happiness Life Men Passion
Love is the only gold.
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Gold Love One Liner
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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Absence Grief Loss Mindset See
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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Goodness Lying Men Peace Rule Sea
For love reflects the thing beloved.
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Important Love Reflection
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Death Fools Himself Mad Men Stupidity Thinking
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Flower Soul Spiritual Sunshine
And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Darkness Face Mindset Myself Strange

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