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Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.”

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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

“Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.”

Thinking Way Use Mistake Knowing Please Tools Electricity Often Is

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“The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”

Long Stories Light Fall Answers Dying Wall Glory Blow Flying Shakes Lakes Leap Echoes Castles Summit Splendour Snowy Castle Walls

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”

Answers Clear Dying Sweet Blow Scar Echoes Purple Horns Cliffs Replying

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.”

Heard Priests Delicate Snowy Dilettantes

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“Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.”

Heart Littles

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“And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.”

Men Years Mind Faces Strange Rounds

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“Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.”

Crowds Canvas Vessel Margins Gleam

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“A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.”

Beauty Daughter Fairs Tall

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“An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.”

Order Tree Ancient Twilight Pastures

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.”

Race Savages

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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