1809-1892, British Poet
I am a part of all that I have met.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Meaning of Life]

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.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Love]

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Action]

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Knowledge]

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Change]

Love is the only gold.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Love]

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Men and Women]

Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Manners]

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Experience]

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Purity]

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.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Critics and Criticism]

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Perseverance]

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.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Honesty]

Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Optimism]

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Power]

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Preparation]

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Sin]

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Ambition]

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Achievement]

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Lord Alfred Tennyson – [Pain]

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