'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
Quotes from In Memoriam A.H.H — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809–1892 England
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Love's too precious to be lost,
A little grain shall not be spilt.
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Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.
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And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
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Whose faith has centre everywhere,
Nor cares to fix itself to form.
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That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more.
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Our father's dust is left alone
And silent under other snows.
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And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
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Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation moves.
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And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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The great world's altar-stairs
That slope thro' darkness up to God.
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So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be.
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When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath.
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