Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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• ‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.

  In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850)In contextOften credited to Augustine of Hippo

  • Love

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Locksley Hall (1842)In contextOften credited to Calvin Coolidge

  • Wisdom

• Little flower — but if I could understand
  What you are, root and all, and all in all,
  I should know what God and man is.

  “Flower in the Crannied Wall” (1869)

  • God
  • Nature

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy