"The parting of a husband and wife is……" — Alfred Lord Tennyson
"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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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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345 Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson has 345 quotes on this site.
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Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little…
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Bible reading is an education in itself.
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God gives us love, someone to love he lends us.
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self,…
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening…
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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast,…
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep!…
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
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Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud…
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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More Cleaving Quotes
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Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have…
— Mother Teresa
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It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth,…
— George Sand
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as…
— Nikolai Gogol
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The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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An important part of leaving and cleaving has to do with abandoning parental beliefs, lifestyles, values, and traditions that are…
— Lou Priolo
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It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
— Gautama Buddha
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with…
— J C Ryle
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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread…
— Constance Rourke
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure…
— George Eliot
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the…
— Aldo Leopold
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned…
— William Shakespeare
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