Life Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

56 Life quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson teaches that true happiness comes from mastering passions, not from their loss. He says self‑knowledge, self‑control, and self‑respect give a person power. He also writes that love can grow ripe and then fall away.

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Love will conquer at the last.

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For love reflects the thing beloved.

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“I am part of all that I have met.”

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“For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever...”

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Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

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Ah, why Should life all labour be?

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All Life needs for life is possible to will.

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Life is brief but love is LONG .

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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

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“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! As tho’ to breathe…

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No life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death.

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

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Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe…

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Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.

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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

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“Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot…

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God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve…

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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling,…

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What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not…

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You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you…

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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come…

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Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as…

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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne,…

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The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days…

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. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain…

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You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and…

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Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know…

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She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were…

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The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the…

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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For…

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There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming,…

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Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless…

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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

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The white flower of a blameless life.

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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

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It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

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Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.

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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the…

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I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

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Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of…

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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

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I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag…

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

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