Quotes by
Alfred Tennyson |
1809-1892 , English poet
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Quotations
| • | It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried. 11 |
| • | A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. 7 |
| • | It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon. 7 |
| • | Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye. 6 |
| • | I am a part of all that I have met. 5 |
| • | Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 5 |
| • | There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. 4 |
| • | If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. 4 |
| • | My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. 4 |
| • | If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. 3 |
| • | The words “far, far away” had always a strange charm. 3 |
| • | The quiet sense of something lost. 3 |
| • | Here at the quiet limit of the world. 3 |
| • | So sad, so fresh the days that are no more. 2 |
| • | The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. 2 |
| • | I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. 2 |
| • | He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more. 2 |
| • | The greater man the greater courtesy. 2 |
| • | Life is brief but love is LONG. 2 |
| • | A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day. 2 |
Quotes in Verse
| • | I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell. 9 |
| • | Things seen are mightier than things heard. 4 |
| • | Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. 3 |
| • | Trust me not at all, or all in all. 3 |
| • | Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. 2 |
| • | Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. 2 |
| • | To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 2 |
| • | So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. 2 |
| • | Who is wise in love, love most, say least. 2 |
| • | I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. 2 |
| • | God and Nature met in light. 2 |
| • | Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; 2 |
| • | Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. 2 |
