16 quotes
British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'"
on Hope
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
on Happiness
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."
on Wisdom
"For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within."
on Language
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"
on Dreams
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."
"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."
on Imagination
"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."
on Truth
"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."
on Love
"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."
on Life
"Love is the only gold."
"My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure."
on Strength
"Ring out the false, ring in the true."
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."
on Grief
"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."
