Lord Alfred Tennyson
45 quotations
Authority forgets a dying king.
God's finger touched him and he slept.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
Faith lives in honest doubt.
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
There's no glory like those who save their country.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Love is the only gold.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
The greater person is one of courtesy.
I am a part of all that I have met.
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
Either sex alone is half itself.
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.