Alfred Tennyson

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6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
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Be near me when my light is low.

In Memoriam

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Across the walnuts and the wine.

The Miller's Daughter

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How fares it with the happy dead?

In Memoriam

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Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

The Two Voices

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On Friendship:

I am a part of all that I have met.

Ulysses

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Ah, why
Should life all labour be?

The Lotus-Eaters

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On Knowledge:

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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Oh good gray head which all men knew!

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

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Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Tithonus

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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays

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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