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Gender relations2 quotes
Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Man is the hunter; woman is his game. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Love2 quotes
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Love is and was my Lord and King. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Men and women2 quotes
Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Man is the hunter; woman is his game. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Progress2 quotes
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Broken heart1 quote
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Change1 quote
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Changing of seasons1 quote
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Determination1 quote
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 Tennyson · 1842Doubt and skepticism1 quote
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Doubt vs. certainty1 quote
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Effects of travel1 quote
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Embracing sadness1 quote
O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me
No casual mistress, but a wife. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Existing not living1 quote
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, -
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Faith1 quote
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Fresh start1 quote
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Friends1 quote
But, friend, to me
He is all fault who hath no fault at all:
For who loves me must have a touch of earth. — Alfred Tennyson · 1859Friends and enemies1 quote
He makes no friend who never made a foe. — Alfred Tennyson · 1859Gender roles1 quote
Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Human nature1 quote
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 Tennyson · 1842Inevitability of progress1 quote
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Knowledge1 quote
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Limits of language1 quote
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Looking back1 quote
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Lost love1 quote
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Melancholy1 quote
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Nature of history1 quote
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842New Year1 quote
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Openness to change1 quote
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Optimism1 quote
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. — Alfred Tennyson · 1885