God gives us love. Something to love He lends us but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
More Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson:
The rise; And long roll of the Hexameter.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Behold a man raised up by Christ.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The greater man, the greater courtesy.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
But I was born to other things.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To reverence the King, as if he were; Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own wor.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: God Quotes, Love QuotesBased on Keywords: ripeness, throve
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
Morris Hite
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Jean M. Auel
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln