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Alexander Pope: An obstinate person...

Alexander Pope: An obstinate person...

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Source: In The...

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Alexander Pope: Where'er you walk,...

Alexander Pope: Where'er you walk,...

Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Bury the Great...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Bury the Great...

Bury the Great Duke
With an empire's lamentation.


Source: Ode on the Death of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Are God and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Are God and...

Are God and Nature then at strife
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Because right is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Because right is...

Because right is right, to follow right were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For it was...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For it was...

For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.


Source: Recollections...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Heard the heavens...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Heard the heavens...

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Hold thou the good: define it well:
For fear divine philosophy
Should push beyond her mark and be
Procuress...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I wept, `Tho'...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I wept, `Tho'...

I wept, `Tho' I should die, I know
That all about the thorn will blow
In tufts of rosy-tinted...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let us hob-and-nob...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let us hob-and-nob...

Let us hob-and-nob with Death.

Source: The Village of Sin, 34
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

I heard the water lapping on the crag,
And the long ripple washing in the reeds.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now sleeps the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now sleeps the...

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O friends, our...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O friends, our...

O friends, our chief state-oracle is mute.

Source: Ode on the Death of the Duke of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No rock so...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No rock so...

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My purpose holds<br>To...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My purpose holds
To...

My purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Surely, surely, slumber...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Surely, surely, slumber...

Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: There lives more...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: There lives more...

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The woman's cause...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The woman's cause...

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink
Together.


Source: The Princess,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The woods decay,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The woods decay,...

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the...

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