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Quotations By Lord Alfred Tennyson


Dreams
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Eternity
In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Evolution
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better."

Evolution
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

Evolution
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Experience
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Experience
I am a part of all that I have met.

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

Honesty
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Love
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Nature
Nature, red in tooth and claw. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Perseverance
No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Power
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Power
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Women
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson