Tennyson Quotes

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in A thousand years.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “His honour rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson - “He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most, 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me? I have lived my life, and that which I have done May he within himself make pure! but thou, If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul....”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Christmas and New Year Bells The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets round, From far and near, on mead and moor, Swell o”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “The greater man, the greater courtesy.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, To full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. 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.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.”

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Lord Alfred Tennyson - “I am a part of all that I have met.”

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