Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson

The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months,The months will add themselves and make the years,The years will roll into the centuries,And mine will ever be a name of scorn.

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 prayerThan this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voiceRise like a fountain for me night and day.

Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?Proputty, proputty, proputty—that's what I 'ears 'em saäy.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

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

Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,And all thy heart lies open unto me.

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.

I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.