Quotes by Alfred Tennyson
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun in lonely lands, ringed with the azure world, he stands.
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
I am a part of all that I have seen.
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.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
