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Inspirational Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Alfred Lord Tennyson writes that we can cast all our cares on God, whose love holds us steady. He observes that while science expands, beauty seems to fade, reminding us that seasons flower and then pass. He also says a greater man shows greater courtesy, singing his song as naturally as a linnet.

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All things human change.

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God gives us love, someone to love he lends us.

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Virtue must shape itself in deed.

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Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

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Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

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It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

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The mighty hopes that make us men.

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Trust me not at all, or all in all.

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

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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

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After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

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To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

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“Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful…

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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

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I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save…

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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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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

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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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I found Him in the shining of the stars.

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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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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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My mind is clouded with a doubt.

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The greater person is one of courtesy.

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Man's word is God in man.

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Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.

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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

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As the husband is, the wife is.

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Here at the quiet limit of the world.

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For love reflects the thing beloved.

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And every dew-drop paints a bow.

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Science grows and Beauty dwindles.

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Love will conquer at the last.

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Oh good gray head which all men knew!

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The greater man the greater courtesy.

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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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