"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." ― Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic(s): Nature More From Alfred Lord Tennyson "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power." "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." "There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds." More In Nature "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."― Sydney Smith "Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton "Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."― David Hume