Alfred Lord Tennyson
English poet
Lived from: 1809 - 1892
Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 6 august 1809 Died: 6 october 1892
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My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
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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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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Sweet is it to have done the thing one ought.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
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The greater man, the greater courtesy.
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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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