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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
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The last great Englishman is low.
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Love lieth deep Love dwells not in lip-depths.
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Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.
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Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
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How fares it with the happy dead?
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I do but sing because I must and pipe but as the linnets sing.
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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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Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.
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The mighty hopes that make us men.
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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
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Man is man, and master of his fate.
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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.
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Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.
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