The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA louse in the locks of literature.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIn time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMy doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIf you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThere is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMore things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTis not too late to seek a newer world.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONWho is wise in love, love most, say least.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON