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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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A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
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This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.
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The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.
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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
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Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
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Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.
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Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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