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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Knowledge comes, but...
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Source: Locksley Hall, 143.
-- Alfred, Lord...
Words, like nature,...
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Source: In The...
Things seen are...
Things seen are mightier than things heard.
Source: Enoch Arden.
-- Alfred, Lord...
Tis better to...
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Source: In...
The world which...
The world which credits what is done
Is cold to all that might have been.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;...
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign...
Knowledge comes, but...
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and bears a laden breast
Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness...
The shell must...
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Faultily faultless, icily...
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
My strength is...
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
Source: Sir...
So many worlds,...
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Source: In...
Now slides the...
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.
Theirs not to...
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Tis better to...
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Source: In...
Our little systems...
Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be.
Source:...
To strive, to...
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Source: In My Favorite Quotations,...
Alone and warming...
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.
Source: Song:...
The noblest answer...
The noblest answer unto such,
Is kindly silence when they brawl.
Source: Altered...
From the great...
From the great deep to the great deep he goes.
Source: Idylls of the King, 'The...
Oh yet we...
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill!
Source: In...