Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"

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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

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He makes no friend who never made a foe.

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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

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A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

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So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

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A day may sink or save a realm.

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Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

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Love is the only gold.

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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

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In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

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All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.

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All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

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What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

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The quiet sense of something lost

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