English - Poet | August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
DreamsLiveTrueLastWhile
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
WisdomKnowledgeLingers
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
ChangeGreatWorldDownSpinEver
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
FoolWordsThoughtsJealousCare
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
LifePowerAloneThreeSelf-Control
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
NatureSoulWordsWithinReveal
Authority forgets a dying king.
KingAuthorityDyingForgets
There's no glory like those who save their country.
CountryGloryWhoLikeSaveThose
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
StupidSinBeyondSeeTooItself
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
GodHimFingerHeTouchedSlept
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Be KindMenBrotherYouKindShame
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
DareRightsResistThoseThem
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