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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
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Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.
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There twice a day the Severn fills The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
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So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.
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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.
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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.
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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
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Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.
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