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Better not be at all than not be noble.
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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The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
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All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
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You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
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The white flower of a blameless life.
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I do but sing because I must and pipe but as the linnets sing.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.
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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
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