I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For…

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson