Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

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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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What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

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With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

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A day may sink or save a realm.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

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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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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

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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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Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

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I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

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And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.

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But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

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