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146 Quotes for 'Lord Alfred Tennyson' in the Database.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes
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There lies more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the
creeds.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
"They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;
But when did woman ever yet invent?"
Topic: Invention
Source: Princess (II, l. 366)
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Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.
Topic: Islands
Source: Locksley Hall (164)
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I do sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing.
Topic: Linnets
Source: In Memoriam (pt. XXI, st. 6)
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If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. - The Passing of Arthur.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - In Memoriam.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.
Topic: Loss
Source: In Memoriam (pt. LXXVIII, st. 2)
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That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.
Topic: Loss
Source: On Memoriam (pt. VI, st. 2)
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck
Shall fling her old shoe after.
Topic: Luck
Source: Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue (st. 27)
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All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call;
It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all;
The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll,
And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.
Topic: March
Source: The May Queen (conclusion)
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For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the
May.
Topic: May
Source: The May Queen (st. 1)
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The bearing and the training of a child
Is woman's wisdom.
Topic: Motherhood
Source: Princess (canto V, l. 456)
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Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Topic: Motherhood
Source: Princess (canto VII, l. 308)
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And o'er the hills and far away,
Beyond their utmost purple rim,
Beyond the night, across the day,
Thro' all the world she followed him.
Topic: Mountains
Source: Daydream--The Departure (IV)
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Better not to be at all
Than not to be noble.
Topic: Nobility
Source: Princess (pt. II, l. 79)
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A life of nothing's nothing worth,
From that first nothing ere his birth,
To that last nothing under earth.
Topic: Nothingness
Source: Two Voices
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When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.
Topic: Owls
Source: Song--The Owl
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Topic: Pain
Source: None
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Darker than darkest pansies.
Topic: Pansies
Source: Gardener's Daughter
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Gone--flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
Topic: Parting
Source: The Window--Gone
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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel
force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Topic: Passion
Source: Locksley Hall (st. 25)
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A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (pt. VI)
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And there they placed a peacock in his pride,
Before the damsel.
Topic: Peacocks
Source: Gareth and Lynette
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Mariana in the moated grange.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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Seeming genial, venial fault.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: motto for Mariana, taken from Shakespeare "Comedy of Errors", III, i (Vincentio, the Duke)
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Marriages are made in Heaven.
Topic: Proverbs
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.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Day Dream--The Departure (I)
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