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“Is there evil but on earth? or pain in every peopled sphere?”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 197

“My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" Sir Galahad http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/sg.htm", st. 1 (1842)

“Unalterably and pesteringly fond.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Act v, scene 1
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)

“Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Lover's Tale (1879), line 813

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use by D.E. Macdonnel (1809) translated from French: Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á être sans passions: il consiste à en être le maître.
Misattributed

“Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 200

“One still strong man in a blatant land.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section x, stanza 5
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)