Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.

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For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

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O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

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the shell must break before the bird can fly.

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A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

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Love is the only gold.

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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

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Love will conquer at the last.

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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

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Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

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