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"38 Alfred Tennyson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 August 1809. Died: 6 October 1892 | Poet |

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

A flower Every time Thought Walk through
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

Hope smiles Threshold Whispering Be happier
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

A lie Half truth Darkest
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers

Knowledge comes Wisdom lingers
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Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

Golden hour Earth The people A weed
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Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.

Sometimes The heart Sees Invisible
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Dreams Are true They last Live
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Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Come friends Too late To seek Newer world
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Lives More faith Honest doubt Believe me
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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.

True Sorrow most Have loved Lost
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Sweet True love In vain Death
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Remain mistress Own self Own soul
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

More things Wrought Prayer World dreams
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Love Long kiss Whole soul Sunlight
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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

My purpose Holds Sail beyond Sunset
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For always roaming with a hungry heart.

Always roaming Hungry heart
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Many worlds So much Little done Things
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Life is brief but love is LONG
Life Brief Love Long
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For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

For words Like nature Half reveal Conceal
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.

The happiness A man Life Mastery
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Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

Forgive My grief Creature So fair
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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

Have sworn Dead body Hate So free
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It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
Unconceivable Whole universe Created Who live
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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

The future Human eye Vision World
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If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

Don't concentrate What Are doing The thing
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

Wonder why Just To do Die
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Love is the only gold.

Love Only gold
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Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

Shall love Be blamed Want Faith
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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.

Cannot rest From travel Drink life Enjoyed greatly
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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

It truth Who sings Clear harp Stepping stone
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

Never Nothing Will die Stream flows
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Great world Spin Ringing grooves Change
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For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever

Men May come Go on Forever
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For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

On death The wrath My heart Our lives
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My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

My strength My heart Pure
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In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

The spring Man's fancy Lightly turns Thought
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Wise In love Love most
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The old order changes, giving place to the new.least on good custom should corrupts the world.

Old orders Changes Giving place The new
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Alfred Tennyson Quotes & Sayings