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Words Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
- Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring…
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words…
- Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
- The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
- In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold
- I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the…
- 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…
- A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on…
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