Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes - page 6

Ambition Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink The more you thirst-yea-drink too much, as men Have done on rafts of wreck-it drives you mad. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men. View quote
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Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more. View quote
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The many fail: the one succeeds. View quote
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O young Mariner, You from the haven Under the sea-cliff, You that are watching The gray Magician With eyes of wonder, I am Merlin, And I am dying, I am Merlin Who follow The Gleam. View quote
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Half a league half a league Half a league onward All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred:. View quote
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My end draws nigh; 't is time that I were gone. Make broad thy shoulders to receive my weight. View quote
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All the charm of all the Musesoften flowering in a lonely word. View quote
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Unalterably and pesteringly fond. View quote
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No sound is breathed so potent to coerce And to conciliate, as their names who dare For that sweet mother-land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to die. View quote
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If I come dressed like a village maid, I am but as my fortunes are: I am a beggar born," she said, "And not the Lady Clare. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die. View quote
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Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him, God accept him, Christ receive him! View quote
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Who shall call me ungentle, unfair, I long'd so heartily then and there To give him the grasp of fellowship; But while I past he was humming an air, Stopt, and then with a riding whip, Leisurely tapping a glossy boot, And curving a contumelious lip, Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare. View quote
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What use to brood? This life of mingled pains And joys to me, Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains The Mystery. View quote
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She sees the Best that glimmers thro' the Worst, She feels the Sun is hid but for a night, She spies the summer thro' 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 wail'd ‘Mirage'! View quote
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A good woman is a wondrous creature, cleaving to the right and to the good under all change: lovely in youthful comeliness, lovely all her life long in comeliness of heart. View quote
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If you are not the heiress born, And I," said he, "the lawful heir, We two will wed to-morrow morn, And you shall still be Lady Clare. View quote
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Forget thee... Never- Till Nature, high and low, and great and small Forgets herself, and all her loves and hates Sink again into Chaos. View quote
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And the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise, That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. View quote
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That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Insipid as the queen upon a card. View quote
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His deeds yet live, the worst is yet to come. Yet let your sleep for this one night be sound: I do forgive him! View quote
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Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will. View quote
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You that woo the Voices-tell them "Old Experience is a fool"; Teach your flattered kings that only those who can not read can rule. View quote
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