Alfred Tennyson quotes

 quotes - My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”

— Alfred Tennyson

 quotes - Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

— Alfred Tennyson

 quotes - Love is the only gold.

“Love is the only gold.”

— Alfred Tennyson

 quotes - By blood a king, in heart a clown.

“By blood a king, in heart a clown.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“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 Tennyson

“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

— Alfred Tennyson

“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“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 Tennyson

“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“I am a part of all that I have met.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Alfred Tennyson

“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“Better not be at all than not be noble.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“God's finger touched him, and he slept.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“He makes no friends who never made a foe.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“There's no glory like those who save their country.”

— Alfred Tennyson