Quotes By Alfred Lord Tennyson

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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.

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

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

There's no glory like those who save their country.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

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

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.