Tennyson, Lord Alfred quotes

1809-1892 British Poet

That man s the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Conservatives

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

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
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Corruption

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

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

There s no glory like those who save their country.
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Glory

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

He makes no friends who never made a foe.
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Friends and Friendship

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
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Fools and Foolishness

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Eyes

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.
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Honesty

Faith lives in honest doubt.
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Faith

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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Love

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

Love is the only gold.
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Love

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

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.
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Kindness

I am a part of all that I have met.
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Meaning of Life

By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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Humor

Better not be at all than not be noble.
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Honor

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Knowledge

The greater person is one of courtesy.
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Manners

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Love

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

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
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Men and Women

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

Either sex alone is half itself.
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Men and Women

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
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Truth

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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Perfection

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

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

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

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Preparation

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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Smile

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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Sin

Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Trust

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
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Purity

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

A day may sink or save a realm.
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Time and Time Management

A sorrow s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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Sorrow

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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Thoughts and Thinking

A louse in the locks of literature.
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Critics and Criticism

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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Critics and Criticism

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Action

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
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Conflict

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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Anxiety

Authority forgets a dying king.
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Death and Dying

God s finger touched him and he slept.
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Death and Dying

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Action

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

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Achievement

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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Wives