Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
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What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?
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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.
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And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
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Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.
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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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I am a part of all that I have met.