Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Poet
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British Poet Laureate (1809-1892)

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Born

August 6, 1809

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Died

October 6, 1892

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Birthplace

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Nationality

American

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Spouse(s)

Emily Tennyson, Lady Tennyson
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Children

Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, Lionel Tennyson, [Unnamed] Tennyson
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"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."
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"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."
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"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
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"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men."
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"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"
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"Love is the only gold."
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"My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure."
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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power."
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"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."
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"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."
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