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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
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 smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.
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Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
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Ah, why Should life all labour be?
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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
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Cast all your cares on God that anchor holds.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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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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