Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThis barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse 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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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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