Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

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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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We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.

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

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For always roaming with a hungry heart.

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Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

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The thrall in person may be free in soul

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A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

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Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

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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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Virtue must shape itself in deed.

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There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

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In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold

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How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

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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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The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

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