“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1<sup>st</sup> Baron Tennyson, FRS, much better known as "Alfred, Lord Tennyson," was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, "In the valley of Cauteretz", "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and fellow student at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died from a cerebral hemorrhage before they were married. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, Ulysses, and Tithonus. During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success. Tennyson wrote a number of phrases that have become commonplaces of the English language, including: "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new". He is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson
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“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
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“I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.”
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“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”
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“Authority forgets a dying king.”
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“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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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
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“By blood a king, in heart a clown.”
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“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'”
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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your...”
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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
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“The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.”
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“Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
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“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
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“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
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“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”
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“Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.”
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“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
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“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
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