Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Alfred Lord Tennyson:
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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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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He makes no friends who never made a foe.
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
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Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Better not be at all than not be noble.
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We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Love is the only gold.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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A day may sink or save a realm.
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
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Authority forgets a dying king.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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