Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

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And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

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I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?

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Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

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You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and pleasure in himself, Not ever be too curious for a boon, Too prurient for a proof against the grain Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men, Being but ampler means to serve mankind, Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, But work as vassal to the larger love, That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.

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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

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Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

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Better not be at all than not be noble.

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

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Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

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Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

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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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Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

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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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Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

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