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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Activity category:
I must love myself in action, lest I wither in despair. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Boredom category:
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
Brothers in Art: a friendship so complete. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Change category:
Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Commerce category:
But the jingling of the guinea, helps the hurt that honour feels. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Complaining category:
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Concentration category:
If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Construction category:
The city is built / To music, therefore never built at all, / And therefore built forever. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Critics category:
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down... Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Deception category:
When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Doubt category:
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Dreams category:
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Earth category:
O earth, what changes hast thou seen! (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Ego category:
And ah for a man to arise in me, / That the man I am may cease to be! (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Experience category:
I am a part of all that I have met; / Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough / Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades / For ever and for ever when I move. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Freedom category:
The shell must break before the bird can fly... (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Gender category:
The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink
Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Greatness category:
We needs must love the highest when we see it. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Growth category:
Let knowledge grow from more to more, / But more of reverence in us dwell; / That mind and soul, according well, / May make one music as before, / But vaster. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Immortality category:
For men may come and men may go / But I go on for ever. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Love category:
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. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Mirrors category:
The mirror crack'd from side to side / 'The curse has come upon me,' cried The Lady of Shalott. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Passion category:
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Poetry category:
This round of green, this orb of flame, / Fantastic beauty such as lurks / In some wild Poet, when he works / Without a conscience or an aim. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Power category:
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Prayer category:
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Purpose category:
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Questions category:
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Renewal category:
Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Sadness category:
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Searching category:
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Searching category:
She is for always roaming with a hungry heart. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Seeing category:
Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Sleep category:
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, / Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; / Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Standards category:
Once in a golden hour, / I cast to earth a seed, / And up there grew a flower, / That others called a weed. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Strength category:
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Thought category:
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Travel category:
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Trust category:
Behold, we know not anything; / I can but trust that good shall fall / At last - far off - at last, to all, / And every winter change to spring. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Universe category:
It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Vulnerability category:
So runs my dream: but what am I? / An infant crying in the night: / An infant crying for the light: / And with no language but a cry. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Wonder category:
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. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Words category:
The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Words category:
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, / Like coarsest clothes against the cold. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Work category:
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - From the Writing category:
For words, like Nature, half reveal / And half conceal the Soul within. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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