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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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• Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

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  Love, Dream, Art

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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• I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sleep, Eye, Night

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• 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.

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  Heart, Mean, Eye

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 21, song (added 1850)

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• Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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  Nature, Soul, Half

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

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  War, Doubt, Sides

  'The Ancient Sage' (1885) l. 66

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• Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

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  Ignorance, Long, Naked

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a part of all that I have met.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Self Esteem

  "Ulysses" l. 13 (1842)

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• And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

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  Knights, Mirrors, Blue

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.43, Broadview Press

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• I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

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  Worry, Despair, Action

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• Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

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  Soul, Might, Christ

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.897, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friendship

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1243, Delphi Classics

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• In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Past, Eternity

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Heart

  "Sir Galahad" l. 3 (1842)

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• Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Years, Golden Years, Golden

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• If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

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  Dark, Negativity, Chance

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

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  Love is the only gold.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Gold, True Love

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1972, Delphi Classics

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• Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

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  Success, Echoes, Soul

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• The greater man the greater courtesy.

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  Men, Courtesy, Manners

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Last Tournament' (1859) l. 628

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• Life is not as idle ore,
  But iron dug from central gloom,
  And heated hot with burning fears,
  And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
  And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
  To shape and use.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Iron, Tears

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

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• Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

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  Prayer, Home, Eye

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 32

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• He makes no friend who never made a foe.

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  Friendship, Military, No Friends

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 1080

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• Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

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  Crowds, Gleam, Canvas

  'Merlin and The Gleam' (1889) st. 9

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

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  Change, Dream, Heart

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1431, Delphi Classics

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