Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

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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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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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Here at the quiet limit of the world.

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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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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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From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

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

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The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

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And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

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God and Nature met in light.

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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

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A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

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She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

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For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

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