Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poet
1809-08-06 – 1892-10-06
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was an English poet and Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. He wrote major Victorian works including In Memoriam A.H.H. and The Charge of the Light Brigade. He died in 1892.
Quotes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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.
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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 knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
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I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.
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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
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From yon blue heaven above us bent, the grand old gardener and his wife smile at the claims of long descent.
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
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And is there any moral shut Within the bosom of the rose?
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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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All things human change.
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The old order changeth yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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The greater man the greater courtesy.
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