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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Darkness

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Despair

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Love

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Lying

I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Meaning of Life

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Passion

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Perfection

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Perseverance

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Topic: Power

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