Lord Alfred Tennyson
45 quotations
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
A day may sink or save a realm.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Trust me not at all, or all in all.
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
A louse in the locks of literature.