Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.

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Here at the quiet limit of the world.

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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

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For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

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And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

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