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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
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An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
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The woods are hush'd, their music is no more The leaf is dead, the yearning past away New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.
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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
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Woman is the lesser man.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.
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O last regret, regret can die!
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It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.
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Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
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Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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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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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.
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