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Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.
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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Man is man, and master of his fate.
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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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The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.
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Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights She heard the torrents meet.
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Bible reading is an education in itself.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Love is the only gold.
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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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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How fares it with the happy dead?
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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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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
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Oh good gray head which all men knew!
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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
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A day may sink or save a realm.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.
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And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.
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