Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

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There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

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The year is dying in the night.

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The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

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Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

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Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

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Tho' much is taken, much abides.

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