Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Lost, Loved

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quote

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Strength, Heart, Pure

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

Work, Yourself, Him

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

Dreams, Live, True

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

Die, Why, Reason

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

Fool, Care, Jealous

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom, Knowledge, Lingers

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

Nature, Words, Soul

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom, Love, Wise

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

Faith, Doubt, Honest

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truth, Lie, Lies

Love is the only gold.
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

Experience, Move, Whose

I am a part of all that I have met.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Find, Seek, Strive

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sympathy, Times, Sorrow

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

Power, Alone, Three

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lose, Action, Despair

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

Women, Men, Best

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Cannot, Here

Better not be at all than not be noble.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Die, Why, Reason

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, Life, Absence

By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Heart, Blood, King

God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

God, Him, Finger

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 6, 1809

Died: October 6, 1892

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