Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"
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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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The white flower of a blameless life.
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The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.
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Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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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.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
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The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
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And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.