Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

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Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

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In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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

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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

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I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

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Too much wit makes the world rotten.

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I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?

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The last great Englishman is low.

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I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

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