Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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• 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, Happened

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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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Taken, Heart

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Community, Mets, Persons

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Spiritual, Prayer

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• the shell must break before the bird can fly.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wise, Motivation, Inspiration

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, New Year, Hope

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Flower

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• Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wonder, Dies

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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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friends, Wisdom, Hate

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• Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Believe, Proof, Prove

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• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Attitude, Military

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
  And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
  In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.
  They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.
  And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;
  At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
  The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
  And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Memories, Kissing

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Thinking, Concentration, Ifs

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• Life is brief but love is LONG .

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love Is, Long, Life Is

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• Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Too Late, World, Late

  "Ulysses" l. 55 (1842)

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• A beam in darkness: let it grow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Darkness, Beam, Grows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.40, Broadview Press

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• Silence, beautiful voice.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beautiful, Voice, Silence

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Positive, Leadership, Knowledge

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Œnone”

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• Things seen are mightier than things heard.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sight, Heard

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics

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• 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 Higher Pantheism' (1869)

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• Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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