Alfred, Lord Tennyson

7 quotes

Lived: 1809 – 1892
Era: Victorian
Place: Lincolnshire / Isle of Wight, England

Victorian Poet Laureate; In Memoriam and other works blend grief, faith, and resolve.

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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’
— Alfred, Lord TennysonHope
I am a part of all that I have met.
— Alfred, Lord TennysonGrowth
Come, my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.
— Alfred, Lord TennysonGrowth
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
— Alfred, Lord TennysonStrength
I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
— Alfred, Lord TennysonHope
That which we are, we are: one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
— Alfred, Lord TennysonStrength
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
— Alfred, Lord TennysonGrowth