Quotes by Tennyson, Lord Alfred

"Authority forgets a dying king."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on death   

"God's finger touched him and he slept."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on death
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"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on doubt   

"Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on experience   

"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on eyes
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"Faith lives in honest doubt."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on faith
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"The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on fools and foolishness   

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"Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!"

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on forgiveness   

"He makes no friends who never made a foe."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on friends and friendship   

"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on ambition
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"There's no glory like those who save their country."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on glory   

"Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on honesty   

"Better not be at all than not be noble."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on honor   

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"By blood a king, in heart a clown."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on humor   

"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."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on kindness   

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on knowledge
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"So much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on achievement
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"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on anxiety
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"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."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"Love is the only gold."

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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."

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"Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind."

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"The greater person is one of courtesy."

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"I am a part of all that I have met."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on life
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"Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on women
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"Either sex alone is half itself."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on women   

"Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!"

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on optimism   

"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on pain
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"Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on perfection   

"No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years."

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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

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"Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on prayer
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"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on preparation
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"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on purity   

"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on sin
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"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on smile   

"Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on soldier
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"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on sorrow   

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on change