Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Change
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Corruption
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Doubt
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Forgiveness
There s no glory like those who save their country.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Glory
Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Experience
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Friends and Friendship
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Fools and Foolishness
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Love
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Manners
Love is the only gold.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Kindness
I am a part of all that I have met.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Meaning of Life
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Humor
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Honor
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Knowledge
The greater person is one of courtesy.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Men and Women
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Truth
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Perfection
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Pain
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Prayer
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Optimism
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Preparation
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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Smile
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Purity
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Soldier
A day may sink or save a realm.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Anxiety
Authority forgets a dying king.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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