Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

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How fares it with the happy dead?

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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

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I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

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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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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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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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As the husband is, the wife is.

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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

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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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The noonday quiet holds the hill.

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It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

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O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

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I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

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The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

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