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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.
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 thrall in person may be free in soul
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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
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Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
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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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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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Earth is dry to the centre, But spring, a new comer, A spring rich and strange, Shall make the winds blow Round and round, Thro' and thro', Here and there, Till the air And the ground Shall be fill'd with life anew.
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But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
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Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
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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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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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