A biography for Alfred Lord Tennysonhasn’t been written yet.
“Love is the only gold.”
“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
“He makes no friends who never made a foe.”
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
“Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
“There's no glory like those who save their country.”
“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
“God's finger touched him, and he slept.”
“By blood a king, in heart a clown.”
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
“Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.”
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.”
“Authority forgets a dying king.”