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