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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
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She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
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Bible reading is an education in itself.
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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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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.
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Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peaceSleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feetLie still, dry dust, secure of change.
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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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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
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The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.
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Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
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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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From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
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