Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. –Alfred Lord TennysonHope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier’. –Alfred Lord TennysonKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. –Alfred Lord TennysonThe Happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in bu tin the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord TennysonGod’s finger touched him, and he slept, –Alfred Lord TennysonA lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. –Alfred Lord TennysonShape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last. –Alfred Lord TennysonWe 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 little breed. –Alfred Lord TennysonTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. –Alfred Lord TennysonWho is wise in love, love most, say least. –Alfred Lord TennysonOurs not to reason why, ours but to do and die. –Alfred Lord TennysonA smile abroad is often a scowl at home. –Alfred Lord TennysonI must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. –Alfred Lord TennysonSo many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. –Alfred Lord TennysonSelf-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. –Alfred Lord TennysonWords, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. –Alfred Lord TennysonMy strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. –Alfred Lord TennysonLove is the only gold. –Alfred Lord TennysonBy blood a king, in heart a clown –Alfred Lord TennysonBetter not be at all than not be noble. –Alfred Lord TennysonRing out the false, ring in the true. –Alfred Lord TennysonTis not too late to seek a newer world. –Alfred Lord TennysonI am a part of all that I have met –Alfred Lord TennysonHe makes no friends who never made a foe. –Alfred Lord TennysonLet the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. –Alfred Lord TennysonSin is too stupid to see beyond itself. –Alfred Lord TennysonDreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? –Alfred Lord TennysonThere lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. –Alfred Lord TennysonTheirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. –Alfred Lord TennysonBelieve me, than in half the creeds. –Alfred Lord TennysonMen at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. –Alfred Lord TennysonSuch a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. –Alfred Lord TennysonAnd out of darkness came the hands that reach thro ‘nature’ moulding men. –Alfred Lord TennysonThe same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. –Alfred Lord TennysonWhat rights are those that dare not resist for them?-Alfred Lord TennysonO earth, what changes hast thou seen! –Alfred Lord TennysonThe God themselves cannot recall their gifts. –Alfred Lord TennysonIn the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, She of man. –Alfred Lord TennysonAuthority forgets a dying king. –Alfred Lord TennysonA day may sink or save a realm. –Alfred Lord Tennyson