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That which we are, we are.
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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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
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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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Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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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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All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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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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Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.
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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.
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Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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I waited for the train at Coventry I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.
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