Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

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The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

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How fares it with the happy dead?

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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

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

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Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year you must not die; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year you shall not die.

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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

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

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O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

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

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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

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All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

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Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

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