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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 came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
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To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
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The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.
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And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
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Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.
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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
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Lady, for indeed I loved you and I deemed you beautiful, I cannot brook to see your beauty marred Through evil spite: and if ye love me not, I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn: I had liefer ye were worthy of my love, Than to be loved again of you - farewell And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love, Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.
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Virtue must shape itself in deed.
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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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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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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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