Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Better not be at all than not be noble.

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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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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

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

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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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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

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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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if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

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

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Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

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Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

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Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

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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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