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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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Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.
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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts Or all the same as if he had not been?
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His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.
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There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.
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God gives us love. Something to love He lends us but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
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A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
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And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
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She has a lovely face God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.
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An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
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Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
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If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.
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