Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

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The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

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All things human change.

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Woman is the lesser man.

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He makes no friend who never made a foe.

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Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

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The greater person is one of courtesy.

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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Better not be at all than not be noble.

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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

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

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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

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Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

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

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