“Meet is it changes should control our being, lest we rust in ease.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Love Thou Thy Land" (1842)

About Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1809 – 1892

English poet laureate of Queen Victoria, known for 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' (1850) and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'.

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

“The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom.”

“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.”

“All progress means war with Society.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”