Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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In me there dwells / No greatness, save it be some far-off touch / Of greatness to know well I am not great.
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And most of all would I flee from the cruel madness of love, / The honey of poison-flowers and all the measureless ill.
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It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Sweet and low, sweet and low, / Wind of the western sea.
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For a breeze of morning moves, / And the planet of Love is on high. / Beginning to faint in the light that she loves / On a bed of daffodil sky.
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Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion, / O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal / humanity, / How often your Re-volution has proven but E-volution / Roll’d again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity!
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The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; / He watches from his mountain walls, / And like a thunderbolt he falls.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall…
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Beautiful Paris, evil-hearted Paris / Leading a jet-black goat white-horn'd, white-hooved.
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