Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light.
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Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.
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Modred's narrow foxy face, Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye.
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Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.
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For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
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Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.
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If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.
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So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
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There lies more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
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And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she followed him.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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And every dew-drop paints a bow.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
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Fancy light from Fancy caught.
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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Deception follows on the heels of deception.
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
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That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
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Marriages are made in Heaven.
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Darker than darkest pansies.
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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.
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One of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark.
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He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.
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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
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Mariana in the moated grange.
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Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot, And feeling all along the garden wall.
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Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
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As many men, so many opinions.
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Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
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Sleep - kinsman thou to death and trance and madness.
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Give place to your superiors.
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt Away from my embraces: And fallen into the dusty crypt Of darken'd forms and faces.
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I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.
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I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.
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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.
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Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue.
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.
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And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.
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The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
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My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls. A noise of falling weights that never fell, Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand, Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door, And bolted doors that open'd of themselves; And one betwixt the dark and light had seen Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.
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While I plan, and plan, my hair Is gray before I know it.
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With no more sign of wisdom than a beard.
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But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.
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And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.
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To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him, And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
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And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
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The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.
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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.
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Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
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If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. - The Passing of Arthur.
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Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
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He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
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I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]
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Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.
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Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.
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Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
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As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
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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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And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
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We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.
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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
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He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls: He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
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When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him.
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The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better."
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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
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I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Or their dead selves to higher things.
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To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam.
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I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.
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And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood, And thunder'd up into Heaven.
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When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.
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And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.
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I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
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I am a part of all that I have seen.
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The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.
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And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.
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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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Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.
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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.
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This oiled and curled Assyrian bull, Smelling of musk and of insolence.
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I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went, In that new world that is the old.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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I give not gold for mere expectations.
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Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.
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We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear.
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Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches; And most of sterling worth is what Our own experience preaches.
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How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!
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This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
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A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
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All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.
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I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - In Memoriam.
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O well for him whose will is strong, He suffers, but he will not suffer long.
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Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well; But when did woman ever yet invent?"
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual freedom mute, . . . . Then waft me from the harbour's mouth, Wild wind, I seek a warmer sky.
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She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said; She said I am aweary, aweary, Oh God, that I were dead.
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The old order changeth yielding place to new, and God fulfills himself in many ways.
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