A biography for Alfred Lord Tennysonhasn’t been written yet.
“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
“Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.”
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
“Better not be at all than not be noble.”
“Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.”
“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.”
“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”
“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.”
“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'”
“Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.”
“The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.”
“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.”
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
“I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.”
“In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.”