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One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.
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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
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Here at the quiet limit of the world.
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We love but while we may And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
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So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
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After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.
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As the husband is, the wife is.
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