Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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.

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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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For always roaming with a hungry heart.

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I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

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Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

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The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

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Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

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

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O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

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Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

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So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

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Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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The year is dying in the night.

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