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• He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Locksley Hall, Line 49...
• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy
  and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at nigh...
• Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Princess, Part ii, Line 355...
• A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
  A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms....
• Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him.
  But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor....
• He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
  -- Old Testament -- Job vii, 10; cf. xvi, 22...
• For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- To ------, after reading a Life and Lette...
• There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Princess, Part iv, Line 1...
• Unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Princess, Part iv, Line 33...