He makes no friends who never made a foe.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though much is taken, much abides, and though we are not now that strength which in old
days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic
hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to
yield.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Better not be at all than not be noble.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Live thy Life,
Young and old,
Like yon oak,
Bright in spring,
Living gold.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Once in a golden hour,
I cast to earth a seed,
And up there grew a flower,
That others called a weed.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sometimes the heart sees what’s invisible to the eye.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not
knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don’t
knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
I said, “O Soul, make merry and carouse,
Dear soul, for all is well.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am a part of all that I have met.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
For every worm beneath the moon
Draws different threads, and late and soon
Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who are wise in love, love most, say least.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Forward, forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
I sometimes hold it half a sin,
To put in words the grief I feel.
For words, like nature, half reveal,
And half conceal the soul within.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace!
Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,
While the stars burn, the moons increase,
And the great ages onward roll.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson