Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 6

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Years, Matrimony, Thrive

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• The greater person is one of courtesy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Courtesy, Manners, Persons

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• The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strange, Far Away, Charm

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1897). “A Memoir By His Son”

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• Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  True Love, Pain, Grief

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt)”

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• This barren verbiage, current among men,
  Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Coins, Currents

  "Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson".

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Reason Why, Reason, Dies

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• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
  Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
  To sleep! to sleep!
  Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
  Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men

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• Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Cups, Born

  1842 Poems,'The Vision of Sin', pt.4, stanza 9, l.95-8.

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Looks, Remember

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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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 were life.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Shining, Age

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• Either sex alone is half itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Sex, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.698, Delphi Classics

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• And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

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  Nature, Men, Hands

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit: 124. That Which We Dare Invoke”

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Weed, Heart

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• A louse in the locks of literature.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Criticism, Locks, Literature

  Said of Churton Collins to Edmund Gosse, in Evan Charteris 'Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse' (1931) ch. 14

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• Ah, when shall all men's good
  Be each man's rule, and universal peace
  Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
  And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
  Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, Lying, Men

  'The Golden Year' (1846) l. 47

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• Any man that walks the mead
  In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find,
  According as his humors lead,
  A meaning suited to his mind.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Men, Mind

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

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  Night, Sound, Wool

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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• Authority forgets a dying king.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Kings, Dying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

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• I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Reason, Photograph, Cameron

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• Love will conquer at the last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Lasts, Conquer

  "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After". Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886.

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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 never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Real, Believe

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• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dance, Moon, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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• Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Glimpse, Forgotten

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beach, Science, Long

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.76, Broadview Press

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