Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

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That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

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Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

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

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He makes no friend who never made a foe.

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Authority forgets a dying king.

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

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

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Ah, why Should life all labour be?

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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

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On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

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Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

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All Life needs for life is possible to will.

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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.

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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

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