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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
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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Man is the hunter women are the game those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins they love us for it, and we ride them down.
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That which we are, we are.
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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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We love but while we may And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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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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For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
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The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
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Man is man, and master of his fate.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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