Best Quotes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Top 10)
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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.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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More Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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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 work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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Love is the only gold.
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the shell must break before the bird can fly.
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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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I hold it true, whate'er 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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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.
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