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Alfred Tennyson
England
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta
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He seems to near and yet so far.
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On Faith:
Believing where we cannot prove.
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Be near me when my light is low.
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How fares it with the happy dead?
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God's finger touched him and he slept.
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Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.
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On Good:
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill.
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'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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