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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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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Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide The mirror crack'd from side to side The curse is come upon me, cried The Lady of Shalott.
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O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all But her thou hast not know for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.
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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword Evolution here.
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Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!
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Behold, we know not anything I can but trust that good shall fall At last-far off-at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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Love is hurt with jar and fret Love is made a vague regret.
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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
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It was my duty to have loved the highest It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
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Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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