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. D…
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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About Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Some critics described Tennyson as overly sentimental. However…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Alfred Lord TennysonMen at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Love is the only gold.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.