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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
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 the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.
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Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
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Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.
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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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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight
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There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay, To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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