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Ah, why Should life all labour be?
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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He is all fault who has no fault at all.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.
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There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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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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Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer And they crossed themselves for fear, All the Knights at Camelot But Lancelot mused a little space He said, She has a lovely face God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
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The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.
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In the long years liker they must grow The man be more of woman, she of man.
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This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.
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