"Authority forgets a dying king."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Death and Dying
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"God's finger touched him and he slept."

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

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"Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things."

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"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers."

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"Faith lives in honest doubt."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Faith
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"The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow."

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"Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!"

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Forgiveness
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"He makes no friends who never made a foe."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Friends and Friendship
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"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."

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"There's no glory like those who save their country."

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"Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie."

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"Better not be at all than not be noble."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Honor
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"By blood a king, in heart a clown."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Humor
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"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."

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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Knowledge
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"So much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Achievement
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"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Anxiety
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"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Love
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"Love is the only gold."

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

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"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."

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

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"The greater person is one of courtesy."

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"I am a part of all that I have met."

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"Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Men and Women
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"Either sex alone is half itself."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Men and Women
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"Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!"

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"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Pain
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"Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more."

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Perseverance
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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Power
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"Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Prayer
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"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last."

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"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure."

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"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself."

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"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

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"Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die."

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"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Sorrow
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"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Change
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