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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
World, Individual, Shore
1842 Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.141-2.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Common Sense, Simplicity, Sublime
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men, Years, Mind
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 405

She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Sweet, Heart
'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Acceptance, Bygones, Lost
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happy, New Year, Years
In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Mind, Noble
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Eagles, Wrens, World
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.544, Delphi Classics

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Summer, Weed, Heart
In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

The thrall in person may be free in soul

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Soul, May, Persons
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.954, Delphi Classics

To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Earth, Faults
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 132

Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

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

Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death, Kings, Dying
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

Either sex alone is half itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Sex, Men
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.698, Delphi Classics

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Stupid, Sin

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Inspirational, Death, Light
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 50

And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Experience, Teach, Folly
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Single, Independent, Air

Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death, Heart, Blow
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men, Cups, Born
1842 Poems,'The Vision of Sin', pt.4, stanza 9, l.95-8.

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dew, Bows, Paint
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.135, Broadview Press

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Crazy, Men, Mad
'The Brook' (1855) l. 33

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Summer, Stars, Fighting
'The Revenge' (1878) st. 9

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Brother, Men, Hints

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dream, Dog, Hunts
'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 79

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