Life Quotes by Alfred Tennyson

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Alfred Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets and is the second most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespeare..
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote or invented a lot of English phrases that we use today like: “nature, red in tooth and claw”

“better to have loved and lost”

“Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die”

“My strength is as the strength of ten,/Because my heart is pure”.

?€œThe happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.?€

?€œMaybe the wildest dreams are but the needful preludes of the truth.?€

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

“Better not be at all than not be noble.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

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

“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

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  2. “better to have loved and lost”
    We cannot be kind to each other in this world

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