“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
KnowledgeAll Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
“God's finger touched him, and he slept.”
God“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
Happiness“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”
Experience“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.”
Nature“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”
Change“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
Best“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
Faith“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
Alone“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
Wisdom“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
Sympathy“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
Knowledge“My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.”
Strength“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.”
Work“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Love“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
Nature“Love is the only gold.”
Love“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
Dreams“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”
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