Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

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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.

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

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There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

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Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

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There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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He makes no friend who never made a foe.

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That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

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The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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