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• We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- L'Envoi...
• I am a part of all that I have met. -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Ulysse
• Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Maud, Part ii, Sect. iv, Stanza 3...
• Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, liv, Stanza 1...
• There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Princess, Part iv, Line 1...
• How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,-- As tho' to breathe were life!
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Ulysse...
• But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Break, break, break...
• We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end
  we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hill...
• Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him
  and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay....