3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson 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. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.