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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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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How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Authority forgets a dying king.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.
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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
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She has a lovely face God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
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Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
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All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
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