Alfred Lord Tennyson
the shell must break before the bird can fly.Collection: Wise
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.Collection: Dream
Faith is believing what we cannot prove.Collection: Believe
Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.Collection: Wonder
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.Collection: Friends
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.Collection: Spiritual
Things seen are mightier than things heard.Collection: Sight
if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.Collection: Thinking
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.Collection: Positive
Life is brief but love is LONG .Collection: Love Is
Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.Collection: Soul
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.Collection: Spiritual
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.Collection: Sleep
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.Collection: Dark
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.Collection: Life
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.Collection: Years
Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I dieCollection: Stars
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - TithonusCollection: Strong
Man is man, and master of his fate.Collection: Fate
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.Collection: Travel
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.Collection: Brother
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.Collection: Men
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the coldCollection: Weed
As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.Collection: Happiness
Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.Collection: Running
For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.Collection: Moon
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.Collection: Men
But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.Collection: Grace
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.Collection: Funny
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.Collection: Nature
He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.Collection: Friendship
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.Collection: Music
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.Collection: Love
. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.Collection: Life
What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.Collection: Mother
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.Collection: Heart
Too much wit makes the world rotten.Collection: Rotten
Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.Collection: Faith
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!Collection: Forgiveness
Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?Collection: Kings
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?Collection: Sorrow
It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.Collection: Fall
To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.Collection: Passion