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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 6
Died: 1892
Died: October 6
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I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.
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Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
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That which we are, we are.
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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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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Faith lives in honest doubt.
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There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay, To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott.
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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.
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Sweet is true love, though given in vain.
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Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
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All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.
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