Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

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Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

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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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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.

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the shell must break before the bird can fly.

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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Ah, why Should life all labour be?

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

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All Life needs for life is possible to will.

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Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

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And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

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And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

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The greater man the greater courtesy.

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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

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The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

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Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

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