Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘It will be happier’…

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see; saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

I have become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart.

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

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.

In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

I will drink life to the lees.

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes part 2

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions.

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

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Let love clasp grief lest both be drowned.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘It will be happier”.

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.

It’s not the destination that matters, it’s the journey.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

I became a name; for always roaming with a hungry heart.

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

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.

Nature is the true revelation of God; it is his living Bible.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

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.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

I hear a voice, perhaps I’ve heard it before. It’s calling me now to much more.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Love is the only gold.

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.

Alfred Sorsazo

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