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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 6
Died: 1892
Died: October 6
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if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
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