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George Bernard Shaw: If you go...

George Bernard Shaw: If you go...

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But I was...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But I was...

But I was born to other things.

Source: In Memoriam, 120 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made Himself...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made Himself...

God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.

Source: The Village of Sin, 3; also last...

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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 have fought...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I have fought...

I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true;
I have only done my duty as a man is bound to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I will take...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I will take...

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my savage race.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man dreams of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man dreams of...

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or when the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or when the...

Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
'I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Someone had blundered:<br>Theirs...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Someone had blundered:
Theirs...

Someone had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The moans of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The moans of...

The moans of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thy voice is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thy voice is...

Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou madest man,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou madest man,...

Thou madest man, he knows not why.

Source: In Memoriam, Prologue
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Whatever crazy sorrow...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Whatever crazy sorrow...

Whatever crazy sorrow saith,
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for...

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Alexander Pope: Poetic Justice, with...

Alexander Pope: Poetic Justice, with...

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,
Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,
And solid pudding...

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Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.


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Alexander Pope: The ruling passion,...

Alexander Pope: The ruling passion,...

The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.


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Alexander Pope: The spider's touch,...

Alexander Pope: The spider's touch,...

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the...

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Alexander Pope: To observations which...

Alexander Pope: To observations which...

To observations which ourselves we make
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Behold a man...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Behold a man...

Behold a man raised up by Christ.

Source: In Memoriam, 31 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Oscar Wilde: Of course the...

Oscar Wilde: Of course the...

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad...

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