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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 6
Died: 1892
Died: October 6
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I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
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Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.
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That which we are, we are.
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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.
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How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.
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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.
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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword Evolution here.
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