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Man is man, and master of his fate.
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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Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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The long day wanes the slow moon climbs the deep.
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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.
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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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How fares it with the happy dead?
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The woman is so hard Upon the woman.
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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
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Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand Ring out the darkness of the land Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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Our little systems have their day They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
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One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.
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Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.
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Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.
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The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.
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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
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The mighty hopes that make us men.
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Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
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