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It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Live Life, Wonder, Happened

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Community, Mets, Persons

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Friendship, Romantic

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Strong, Taken, Heart
"Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Funny, Life
In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

the shell must break before the bird can fly.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wise, Motivation, Inspiration
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dream, Spiritual, Prayer
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Spiritual, Jesus, Flower

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Education, Wise
'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness, New Year, Hope
"The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Believe, Proof, Prove

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Friends, Wisdom, Hate

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wonder, Dies

Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales. They said that Love would die when Hope was gone. And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope; At last she sought out Memory, and they trod The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope, And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Memories, Kissing
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Running, Attitude, Military
"Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness, Passion, Men

Life is brief but love is LONG .

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love Is, Long, Life Is

Silence, beautiful voice.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Beautiful, Voice, Silence
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thinking, Concentration, Ifs

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sight, Heard
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Too Late, World, Late
"Ulysses" l. 55 (1842)

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Positive, Leadership, Knowledge
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Œnone”

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Inspirational, Strength, Heart
"Sir Galahad" l. 3 (1842)

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Spiritual, Hands, Breathing
'The Higher Pantheism' (1869)

Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Soul, Might, Christ
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.897, Delphi Classics

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