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But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to 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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We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
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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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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
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With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
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Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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Ah, why Should life all labour be?
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Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
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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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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
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Love is the only gold.
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if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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All things human change.
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The last great Englishman is low.
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