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01c. 1850 AD

We needs must love the highest when we see it, / Not Lancelot, nor another.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

02c. 1850 AD

What are men better than sheep or goats, / That nourish a blind life within the brain, / If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer / Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

Alfred Tennyson / quote

03c. 1850 AD

What rights are his that dare not strike for them?

Alfred Tennyson / quote

04c. 1850 AD

What was once to me / Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown / The vast necessity of heart and life.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

05c. 1850 AD

Who are wise in love, love most, say least.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

06c. 1850 AD

Who shuts love out shall be shut out from love.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

07c. 1850 AD

Who walks through fire will hardly heed the smoke.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

08c. 1850 AD

Woman is not undevelopt man, / But diverse; could we make her as the man, / Sweet love were slain: his dearest bond is this / Not like to like, but like in difference.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

09c. 1850 AD

Worse than being fool'd / Of others, is to fool one's self.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

10c. 1850 AD

Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg / The murmur of the world.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

11c. 1850 AD

Yea, let all good things await / Him who cares not to be great, / But as he saves or serves the state.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

12c. 1850 AD

Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men are widen'd by the process of the suns.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

13c. 1850 AD

Yet this grief / Is added to the griefs the great must bear, / That howsoever much they may desire / Silence, they cannot weep behind a cloud.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

14c. 1850 AD

You said your say; / Mine answer was my deed.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

15c. 1850 AD

You wise, / To call him shamed, who is but overthrown?

Alfred Tennyson / quote

16c. 1850 AD

A smile abroad is oft a scowl at home.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

17c. 1850 AD

Man's word is God in man.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

18c. 1850 AD

Mockery is the fume of little hearts.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

19c. 1850 AD

Obedience is the bond of rule.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

20c. 1850 AD

The proud man often is the mean.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

21c. 1850 AD

There are enough unhappy on this earth.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

22c. 1850 AD

Woman is the lesser man.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

Editorial context: This sentence asserts that women are inferior to men. It records a historical sexist viewpoint; preserving the quotation does not endorse that hierarchy.

23c. 1850 AD

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying.... Close up his eyes: tie up his chin: Step from the corpse, and let him in That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There’s a new foot on the floor, my friend And a new face at the door, my friend, A new face at the door.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

24c. 1850 AD

And the nightingale thought, “I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay, For he sings of what the world will be When the years have died away.”

Alfred Tennyson / quote