Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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By blood a king, in heart a clown. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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