Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

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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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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

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We needs must love the highest when we see it.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

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

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O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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The greater man the greater courtesy.

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The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

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

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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

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Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

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