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Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

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ALFRED TENNYSON:
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breath were life. Life piled on life ...

ULYSSES, 1842

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ALFRED TENNYSON:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

IN MEMORIAM A.H.H., 1849

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ALFRED TENNYSON:
And the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise,
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,
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 matter to fight.

THE GRANDMOTHER, 1864

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ALFRED TENNYSON:
For nothing worthy proving can be proven,
Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise,
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith!

THE ANCIENT SAGE, 1885

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