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Quotation from Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.”
Ulysses, Lines 50-53 (Poems (1842), ed. Collins 1900)
Ulysses tells his aging mariners that death is certain but that one more great deed is still possible.
Citation: "Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses, Lines 50-53 (Poems (1842), ed. Collins 1900). (id tennyson-ulysses-q5)
Virtues: Magnanimity
Portrait: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, George Frederic Watts, Public domain.
