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We needs must love the highest when we see it.
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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That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.
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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
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Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.
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A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.
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Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
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Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?
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Love lieth deep Love dwells not in lip-depths Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?
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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.
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Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.
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Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
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