Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Profession : Poet

Birth : August 6, 1809

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson