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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Men may rise...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Men may rise...

Men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nature, red in...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nature, red in...

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Source: 'In Memoriam'
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our Playwright may...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our Playwright may...

Our Playwright may show
In some fifth Act what this wild drama means.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nourishing a youth...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nourishing a youth...

Nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Round thee with...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Round thee with...

Round thee with the breeze of song
To stir a little praise of dust.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Upon the middle...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Upon the middle...

Upon the middle of the night.
Waking she heard the night-fowl crow.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: There rolls the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: There rolls the...

There rolls the deep where grew the tree.

Source: In Memoriam, 123 (Note: the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To rust unburnished,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To rust unburnished,...

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use.

Source: Ulysses, 23
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: To get back...

Oscar Wilde: To get back...

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be...

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Oscar Wilde: One should never...

Oscar Wilde: One should never...

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old...

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Oscar Wilde: Oh, duty is...

Oscar Wilde: Oh, duty is...

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

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Oscar Wilde: He thinks like...

Oscar Wilde: He thinks like...

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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Oscar Wilde: While we look...

Oscar Wilde: While we look...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to...

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Oscar Wilde: Grief has turned...

Oscar Wilde: Grief has turned...

Grief has turned her fair.

Source: Referring to the fact that a recently-bereaved...

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Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

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Oscar Wilde: Who am I...

Oscar Wilde: Who am I...

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

Source: Refusing to make alterations to one...

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Oscar Wilde: Art is not...

Oscar Wilde: Art is not...

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The...

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Oscar Wilde: As one knows...

Oscar Wilde: As one knows...

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither...

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Oscar Wilde: Mr. Henry James...

Oscar Wilde: Mr. Henry James...

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Source: Vivian, in The...

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William Shakespeare: Why then the...

William Shakespeare: Why then the...

Why then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.


Source: The...

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