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Alfred Tennyson Quotes

English Poet Laureate, author of In Memoriam and The Charge of the Light Brigade. (1809-1892)

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Tennyson

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier'...

Alfred Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.

Alfred Tennyson

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Who was Alfred Tennyson?

English Poet Laureate, author of In Memoriam and The Charge of the Light Brigade. This page collects their most famous quotes in one place.

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