Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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God and Nature met in light.
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
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All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.
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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.
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The last great Englishman is low.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
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The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.
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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
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Virtue must shape itself in deed.
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
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And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?
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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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Bible reading is an education in itself.
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There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.