Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

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You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

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That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

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Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die

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Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

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The quiet sense of something lost

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

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Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

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Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

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Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

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Man's word is God in man.

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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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The mighty hopes that make us men.

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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

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And every dew-drop paints a bow.

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And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

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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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