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Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

«Tho'/ We are not now that strength that in old days/ Moved earth and heaven: that which we are, we are;/ One equal temper of heroic hearts,/ Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.»
«The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.»
«He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | About: God, Truth | Keywords: palter
«No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.»
«Ring in the valiant man and free the larger heart, the kindlier hand! Ring out the darkness of the land, ring in the Christ that is to be!»
«Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.»
«Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.»
«The world which credits what is done/ Is cold to all that might have been.»
«Things seen are mightier than things heard.»
«This gray spirit yearning in desire/ To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/ Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.»