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21 " And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. "
― Alfred Tennyson
22 " Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. "
23 " I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die. "
― Alfred Tennyson , Idylls of the King
24 " No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world. "
25 " There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. "
26 " Time...a maniac scattering dust. "
27 " Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and for ever. "
― Alfred Tennyson , The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
28 " There rolls the deep where grew the treeO earth, what changes hast thou seen!There where the long street roars hath been.The stillness of the central sea. "
― Alfred Tennyson , In Memoriam
29 " Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. "
30 " Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of hell. "
― Alfred Tennyson , The Charge of the Light Brigade
31 " The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. "
32 " O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. "
33 " I am part of all that I have met. "
34 " Wearing all that weight of learning like a flower. "
35 " Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. "
36 " Forgive my grief for one removedThy creature whom I found so fairI trust he lives in Thee and thereI find him worthier to be loved. "
37 " And at the closing of the dayShe loosed the chain, and down she lay;The broad stream bore her far away,The Lady of Shallot. "
38 " Yet all experience is an arch wherethroughGleams that untraveled world whose margin fadesForever and forever when I move.How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!As though to breathe were life! "
39 " Forerun thy peers, thy time, and letThy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet. "
40 " All precious things discovered lateTo those that seek them issue forth,For Love in sequel works with Fate,And draws the veil from hidden worth "