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the shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
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Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
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To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
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God and Nature met in light.
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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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The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.
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Behold, we know not anything I can but trust that good shall fall At last-far off-at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
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And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
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Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
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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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The year is dying in the night.
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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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