Alfred Lord Tennyson said this quote

“ The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ”

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Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson