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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Soul, Half
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Morning, Stars, Golden
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heart, Mean, Eye
'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 21, song (added 1850)

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sleep, Eye, Night

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Worry, Despair, Action

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dark, Negativity, Chance
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Dream, Art
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Crowds, Gleam, Canvas
'Merlin and The Gleam' (1889) st. 9

He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Friendship
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1243, Delphi Classics

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Iron, Tears
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Beautiful, Art, Goodness
Lord Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”

Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ignorance, Long, Naked
Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Friendship, Military, No Friends
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 1080

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Gold, True Love
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1972, Delphi Classics

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Success, Echoes, Soul
'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prayer, Home, Eye
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 32

And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, World, Arms
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
War, Doubt, Sides
'The Ancient Sage' (1885) l. 66

A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Darkness, Beam, Grows
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.40, Broadview Press

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Strength, Perseverance, Years
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Years, Golden Years, Golden

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Running, Moving, Knowledge
'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 137

The greater man the greater courtesy.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men, Courtesy, Manners
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Last Tournament' (1859) l. 628

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Noble, Nobility
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.635, Delphi Classics

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