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Alfred Lord Tennyson [1809-1892] English

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Victorian, War

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

Love, Men, Nature, New Year's, Wisdom, Alone, Change, Dreams, Experience, Faith, God, Happiness, Home, Hope, Knowledge, Power, Smile, Strength, Sympathy, Truth, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Work	101
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.	Love, Wisdom	102
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.	Love	103
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'	Hope, New Year's	104
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.		105
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.		106
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.	Knowledge, Wisdom	107
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.	Truth	108
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.	Men, Nature	109
God's finger touched him, and he slept.	God	110
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.		111
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.	Happiness	112
Ring out the false, ring in the true.	New Year's	113
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.		114
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.		115
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.	Men	116
Love is the only gold.	Love	117
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.	Alone, Power	118
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.		119
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.	Faith	120
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.		121
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?	Dreams	122
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.		123
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.	Experience	124
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.	Nature	125
I am a part of all that I have met.		126
Better not be at all than not be noble.		201
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.		202
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.	Strength	203
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.	Home, Smile	204
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.		205
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.	Change	206
By blood a king, in heart a clown.		207
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.		208
A day may sink or save a realm.		209
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!		210
Believe me, than in half the creeds.		211
He makes no friends who never made a foe.		212
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.		213
Authority forgets a dying king.		214
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.	Sympathy	215
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.		216
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.		217
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.		218
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?		219
There's no glory like those who save their country.		220

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