Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“God’s finger touched him, and he slept.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
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