Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Change, World, Ever, Groove

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Heir, Ages, Files, Foremost

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Strive, Find, Seek, Yield

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Here, However, Grin, Breed

Love is the only gold.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Gold, Only, Love Is

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Earth, Most, Differ

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Changes, Earth, Seen, Thou

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alone, Power, Self-Control, Self-Knowledge

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Other, Knock, Very, Sensible

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Never, Made, Makes, No Friends

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Never, Better, Tis

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

World, Late, Too Late, Tis

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

More, Half, Lives, Creeds

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Me, Than, Half, Creeds

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Myself, Lose, Lest, Despair

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness, His, Does, Passions

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truth, Which, Ever, Blackest

Authority forgets a dying king.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

King, Dying, Authority, Forgets

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Experience, Margin, Move, Gleam

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thoughts, Read, Guard, Dealer

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Die, Reason, Why, Reply

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

God, Finger, Touched, Slept

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hours, Shape, Hour, Front

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

New Year's, Smiles, Happier, Whispering

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Rights, Resist, Them, Dare

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Themselves, Gods, Recall, Gifts

I am a part of all that I have met.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

I Am, Part, Am, Met

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Heart, King, Blood, Clown

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Things, Worlds, Many, Such Things

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature, Hands, Reach, Came

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