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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.
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All Life needs for life is possible to will.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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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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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.
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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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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
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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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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
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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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