Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
Interpretation
The impact of our thoughts and actions resonates through time, affecting others long after we are gone.
This quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson emphasizes the idea that our thoughts, actions, and emotions create an echo that reaches beyond ourselves. The connections we make and the influences we impart extend from one soul to another, growing stronger and more significant over time, suggesting that we are all interconnected in a vast web of human experience.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Tennyson stated, our echoes roll from soul to soul, reminding us of the importance of our impact on others.'
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
This is true across every single society; we project grossness onto a racial or gender subgroup or caste. A big part of social subordination and discrimination is to ascribe hyper-animality to other groups and use that as an excuse for subordinating them further.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!
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