Alfred Lord Tennyson
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
alone
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
best
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
change
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
dreams
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
experience
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
faith
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
god
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
happiness
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
home
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
knowledge
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
love
Love is the only gold.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
love
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
nature
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
nature
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
power
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
smile
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
strength
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
sympathy
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
truth
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
wisdom
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
wisdom
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
women
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
work
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