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Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "And this gray spirit yearning in desire. To follow knowledge..."

And this gray spirit yearning in desire. To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground. And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed; Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd; All murder'd: for within the hollow crown. That rounds the mortal temples of a king. Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,... William Shakespeare
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His gaze, bluntedby the unnumbered processionof iron bars, uncountedas his softly padded steps. Smooth motion of blood and sinewturning in its own, small circleprescribed by bars and walls... and skin, confined. Suddenly, without warning, a flash of light and imagepierces the caged brain, and passing through its beating heartto stillness finds its way. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Tommy Chong quote: "I'm as clean as a whistle."
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