The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
A day may sink or save a realm.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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 friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Love is the only gold.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
I am a part of all that I have met.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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.
There's no glory like those who save their country.
Authority forgets a dying king.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
