Top 100 Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

#1. So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

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

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#3. It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

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#4. Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

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#5. What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

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#6. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Too much wit makes the world rotten.

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#9. All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

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#10. With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

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#11. A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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#12. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

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#13. I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

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#14. I am on fire within.
There comes no murmur of reply.
What is it that will take away my sin,
And save me lest I die?

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#15. The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

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#16. An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

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#17. Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

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#18. 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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#19. 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.

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#20. Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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

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

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#23. When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.

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#24. The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

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#25. Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

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#26. That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

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#27. I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.

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#28. Every man at time of Death,
Would fain set forth some saying that may live
After his death and better humankind;
For death gives life's last word a power to live,
And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

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#29. Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

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#30. But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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#31. A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

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#32. Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,
Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

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#33. Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

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#34. The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

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#35. The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.

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#36. Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

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

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#38. Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

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#39. Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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

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#41. A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

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#42. I will love thee to the death,
And out beyond into the dream to come.

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#43. Earth is dry to the center,
But spring, a new comer,
A spring rich and strange,
Shall make the winds blow
Round and round,
Thro' and thro' ,
Here and there,
Till the air
And the ground
Shall be fill'd with life anew.

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#44. So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

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#45. 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.

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#46. In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

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#47. Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

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#48. She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

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#49. The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

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#50. I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

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#51. France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

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#52. The thrall in person may be free in soul

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#53. What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

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#54. But for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

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#55. O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

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#56. O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

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#57. And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

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#58. I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

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

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

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#61. God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

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#62. How fares it with the happy dead?

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#63. O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

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#64. A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

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#65. Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

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#66. She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthly bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead;
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red.

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#67. The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

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#68. There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay, To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott.

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#69. The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

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#70. So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

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

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#72. My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

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#73. I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

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#74. Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

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#75. Love will conquer at the last.

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#76. Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

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

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#78. Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

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#79. Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

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#80. Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed ...

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#81. I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling ...

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#82. And others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches.

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#83. The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

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#84. Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

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#85. Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

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#86. A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

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#87. 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.

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#88. That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

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#89. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

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#90. Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

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#91. The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

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#92. One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

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#93. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

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#94. Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

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

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#96. I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

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#97. In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

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#98. Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

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#99. Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

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#100. Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

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