Top 478 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Last updated on December 6, 2024.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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.
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
There's no glory like those who save their country.
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
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.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Authority forgets a dying king.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Love is the only gold.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
A day may sink or save a realm.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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.
I am a part of all that I have met.
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
the shell must break before the bird can fly.
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.
They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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