Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Collection: Knowledge
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'Collection: New
Ring out the false, ring in the true.Collection: New
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.Collection: Sympathy
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?Collection: Dreams
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.Collection: Experience
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.Collection: Truth
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Collection: Faith
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Collection: Happiness
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.Collection: Home
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.Collection: Men
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.Collection: Wisdom
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.Collection: Alone
Love is the only gold.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Work
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Collection: Nature
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.Collection: Nature
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.Collection: Great
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.Collection: Love
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.Collection: Strength
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Authority forgets a dying king.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
I am a part of all that I have met.
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
A day may sink or save a realm.
There's no glory like those who save their country.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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.
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had triedCollection: Live Life
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Strong
We are all a part of every person we have ever met.Collection: Community