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Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.
  • I hold it true,what'er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.
  • Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.
  • Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
  • Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
  • There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
  • Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.
  • Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
  • 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
  • My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
  • Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
  • I am a part of all that I have met.
  • Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
  • The greater man the greater courtesy.
  • The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.