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“I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.”

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Alfred Lord Tennyson was a prominent British Romantic poet known for his poetry that depicted nature, love, and heroism. His works, including 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' and 'Ulysses', are celebrated for their beauty and depth of emotion. more

“It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!”

Men Wells Soul Desire Fall Heaven Secret Horror Destruction Eternity Longing Immortality Divinity Dread Inward Plato Shrinks Hereafter

Author:Joseph Addison

“The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant”

Source: The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

“A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.”

Soul Eye Faces Fairs Shining Glasses

Book:The day-book of John Stuart Blackie

Source: The day-book of John Stuart Blackie

Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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