| 146 Famous Quotes by Lord Alfred Tennyson
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“Mariana in the moated grange.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Modred's narrow foxy face,
Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“O well for him whose will is strong,
He suffers, but he will not suffer long.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“One of Satan's shepherdesses caught
And meant to stamp him with her master's mark.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches;
And most of sterling worth is what
Our own experience preaches.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Seeming genial, venial fault.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“She only said, My life is dreary,
He cometh not, she said;
She said I am aweary, aweary,
Oh God, that I were dead.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Should banded unions persecute
Opinions, and induce a time
When single thought is civil crime,
And individual freedom mute,
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Then waft me from the harbour's mouth,
Wild wind, I seek a warmer sky.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his
tongue.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“The far-off interest of tears.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“The Queen, who sat
With lips severely placid felt the knot
Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen
Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Treading softly like a thief,
Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,
And feeling all along the garden wall.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“When his heart is glad
Of the full harvest, I will speak to him.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“With no more sign of wisdom than a beard.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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“Marriages are made in Heaven.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Aylmer's Field (l. 188)
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“And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went,
In that new world that is the old.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Day Dream--The Departure (I)
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“He makes no friend who never made a foe.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Idylls of the King--Launcelot and Elaine (l. 1109)
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