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

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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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God and Nature met in light.

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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

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The quiet sense of something lost

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Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good, Or propagate again her loathèd kind, Thronging the cells of the diseased mind, Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood, Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?

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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

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Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

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

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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

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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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One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

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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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Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

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