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Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.
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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Love is the only gold.
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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.
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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
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Better not be at all than not be noble.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.
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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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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: This is the curse of time.
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
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I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?
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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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