Alfred Lord Tennyson famous quotes

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Dream #Spiritual #Prayer

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Life #Education #Teacher

Love is the only gold.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love #Gold #True Love

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love #Life #Break Up

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Happiness #Passion #Men

the shell must break before the bird can fly.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Wise #Motivation #Inspiration

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love #Dream #Art

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Prayer #Home #Eye

Ring out the false, ring in the true.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Happy #New Year #Rings

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love #Wise

God's finger touched him, and he slept.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Death #Grieving #Memorial

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Doubt #Sides #Anticipation

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Life #Drink

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Live Life #Wonder

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Music #Cities #Piano

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Too Late #World

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love #Lying #Darkness

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.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Summer #Weed #Heart

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Mom #Mother #Blessed

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Smile #Home

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Funny #Women #Heaven

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Nature #Soul #Half

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Rights #Conflict #Dare

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

#Change #Dream #Heart

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Truth #Lying #Deceit

I am a part of all that I have met.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Inspirational #Attitude #Self Esteem

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Worry #Despair #Action

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Life #Shining #Age

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Reason

Life is brief but love is LONG .
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love Is #Long #Life Is

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Inspirational #Strength #Heart

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.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Friends #Wisdom #Hate

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

#Stars #Sunset #Purpose

Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Ignorance #Long #Naked

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Spiritual #Hands #Breathing

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Smart #Vow

The greater man the greater courtesy.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Men #Courtesy #Manners

A day may sink or save a realm.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Time #May #Time Management

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Inspirational #Honesty #Believe

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Happiness #Hope #New Year

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Heart #Mean #Eye

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love #Kissing #Fire

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Credit #Done #World

A beam in darkness: let it grow.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Darkness #Beam #Grows

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Country #Men #Cosmopolitanism

Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Stars #Sunset #Order

Things seen are mightier than things heard.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Sight #Heard

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Wise #Sorrow

The quiet sense of something lost
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Quiet #Lost

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Graduation #Future #Eye

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love #Sweet #Pain

Virtue must shape itself in deed.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Shapes #Deeds #Virtue

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Women #Flower #Simple

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Stars #Poetry #Desire

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Weed #Pain #Lying

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!
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Sweet #Regret #First Love

Either sex alone is half itself.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Nature #Sex #Men

All things human change.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Change #Humans

The greater person is one of courtesy.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Courtesy #Manners #Persons

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Prayer #Heaven #Storm

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Suicide #Crazy #Sorrow

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Song #Wings #Singing

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Fire #Clouds #West

You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Spiritual #Real #Believe

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Three #Pace #Rooms

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.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Soul #Mind #May

Faith lives in honest doubt.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Faith #Feelings #Doubt

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within,
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Life #Grief #Soul

She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Knights #Loyal

The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Life #Dream #Prayer

Trust me not at all, or all in all.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Trust #Feelings #Trust Me

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.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Fall #Dust #Hands

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Music #Lying #Tired

Authority forgets a dying king.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Death #Kings #Dying

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Brother #Men #Hints

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall...
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Fall #Decay #Woods

I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Home #Blood #Long

So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#So Sad

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Work #Philosophical #Ambition

The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Strange #Far Away #Charm

The year is dying in the night.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Night #Years #Dying

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Art #Dark #Two

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Running #Wall #Flower

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Moon #Planets #Rate

Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Grief #Forgiving #Found

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Love #Friendship #Anniversary

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Strong #Age #Down And

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Men

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Time #Age #Heirs

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Inspirational #Change #Science