20 quotes by Alfred Tennyson

“Tis better to have loved and lost.
Than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let
Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set
In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“My strength is as the strength of ten.
Because my heart is pure.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Love is the only gold.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“God's finger touched him, and he slept.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” — Alfred Tennyson

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