Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

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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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Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

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Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.

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Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

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You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

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Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.

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All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

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Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

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There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

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

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To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

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For love reflects the thing beloved.

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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

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