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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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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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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I cannot rest from travel I will drink Life to the lees.
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
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God gives us love. Something to love He lends us but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
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In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
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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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Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.
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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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Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.
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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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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.
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All things human change.
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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
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Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
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Either sex alone is half itself.
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I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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