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Alfred Lord Tennyson Inspirational Quotes (453)

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
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I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?
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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
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Lady, for indeed I loved you and I deemed you beautiful, I cannot brook to see your beauty marred Through evil spite: and if ye love me not, I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn: I had liefer ye were worthy of my love, Than to be loved again of you - farewell And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love, Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.
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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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Bible reading is an education in itself.
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
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He is all fault who has no fault at all.
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The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.
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Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.
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I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.
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And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
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That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.
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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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A day may sink or save a realm.
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That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
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You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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