Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
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 same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

There's no glory like those who save their country.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson