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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hate, Love Is, Perfect
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1047, Delphi Classics

The old order changes yielding place to new.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Order

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Art, Voice, Misery
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.469, Delphi Classics

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Sad, Lying
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2331, Delphi Classics

God and Nature met in light.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Light, Mets, God And Nature
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Trust, Feelings, Trust Me
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 396

The many fail: the one succeeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Succeed, Failing
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Order, World, Way
Idylls of the King "The Passing of Arthur" l. 408 (1869) See Bailey 1; George H. W. Bush 7; George H. W. Bush 10; George H. W. Bush 12; Martin Luther King 1

Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Night, Sound, Wool
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom, Men, Wisest Man
"Pome by Alfred Lord Tennyson". Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886.

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Faith, Dishonour, Rooted
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 870

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Inspirational, Faith, Honesty
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 96

And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Men, Hands
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit: 124. That Which We Dare Invoke”

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Self, Soul, Mistress
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2251, Delphi Classics

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Grief, Mind, Sap
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ring Out , Wild Bells”

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Peace, Lying, Men
'The Golden Year' (1846) l. 47

This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men, Coins, Currents
"Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson".

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Flower, Hours
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

Alfred Lord Tennyson
True Love, Pain, Grief
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt)”

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heart, Kissing, Romantic Love
'Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere' (1842)

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mom, Mother, Blessed

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Reason Why, Reason, Dies

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Winning, Perfect, May
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.228, Courier Corporation

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Shining, Age
'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men

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