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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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Love will conquer at the last.
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You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
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God made thee good as thou art beautiful.
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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
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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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That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
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Love is the only gold.
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Our little systems have their day They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
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Oh good gray head which all men knew!
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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
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Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!
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So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not
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O last regret, regret can die!
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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Better not be at all than not be noble.
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Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.
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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
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