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If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
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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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
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We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
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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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He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
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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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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
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Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.
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