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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He seems so...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He seems so...

He seems so near and yet so far.

Source: In Memoriam, 97 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I dreamed there...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I dreamed there...

I dreamed there would be Spring no more,
That Nature's ancient power was lost.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I should count...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I should count...

I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It becomes no...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It becomes no...

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I found Him...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I found Him...

I found Him in the shining of the stars,
I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,
But in His ways with men I...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our little systems...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our little systems...

Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be;
They are but broken lights of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: That a lie...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: That a lie...

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

The grand old name of gentleman.

Source: In Memoriam, 111 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Time, a maniac...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Time, a maniac...

Time, a maniac scattering dust,
And Life, a Fury slinging flame.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This way and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This way and...

This way and that dividing the swift mind.

Source: Idylls of the King, `The Passing...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: We are not...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: We are not...

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: We have children,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: We have children,...

We have children, we have wives,
And the Lord hath spared our lives.
We will make the Spaniard promise, if we...

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Oscar Wilde: The true mystery...

Oscar Wilde: The true mystery...

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Source: In Pearls...

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Oscar Wilde: The poet is...

Oscar Wilde: The poet is...

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord...

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Oscar Wilde: Despotism is unjust...

Oscar Wilde: Despotism is unjust...

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better...

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Oscar Wilde: One's real life...

Oscar Wilde: One's real life...

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Source: Rose-Leaf and...

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Oscar Wilde: Mr. Whistler always...

Oscar Wilde: Mr. Whistler always...

Mr. Whistler always spelt art, and we believe still spells it, with a capital I.

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Oscar Wilde: We live in...

Oscar Wilde: We live in...

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy...

Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy...

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount...

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