Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.

  

  Tananarive Due
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• Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.

  

  Hans Jonas
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  • Stars
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• You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Long
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• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
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• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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• Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Country
  • Political
  • Wish

• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I'm on Tumblr all the time.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Tumblr

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • World
  • Country
  • Song

• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • More
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • School
  • Very
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• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Poetry

• He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Humanity
  • Stupid

• An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

  

  Aeschines
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Community

• Usually this desire for family limitation has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Family
  • Desire
  • Intelligent

• The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Life

• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Recognition
  • Human Rights
  • Bondage

• I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • House
  • Me
  • Summer

• There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Bible

• Tell truth, and shame the devil.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Truth
  • Shame

• And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Loves