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The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.
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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A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Better not be at all than not be noble.
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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.
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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
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So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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