Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

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Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

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Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

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With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

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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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Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

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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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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.

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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

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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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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

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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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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

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Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

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