Quotes from Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

Sleep - kinsman thou to death and trance and madness.

We scarcely thought in our own hall to hear This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment...

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

What's up is faith what's down is heresy.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.