560 Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

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

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

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

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.