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Alfred Lord Tennyson Inspirational Quotes (453)

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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
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Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
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Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.
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Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.
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Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.
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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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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
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The thrall in person may be free in soul
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And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.
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The noonday quiet holds the hill.
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Her court was pure, her life serene God gave her peace her land reposed A thousand claims to reverence closed.
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Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
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The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.
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What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.
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There twice a day the Severn fills The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
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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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
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It was my duty to have loved the highest It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.
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