Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson
On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 Lord Tennyson
Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson