Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.

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France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

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Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

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And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

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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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The white flower of a blameless life.

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My mind is clouded with a doubt.

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Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

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

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All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

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She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room

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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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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

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The noonday quiet holds the hill.

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