Quote #103
Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine -
More from Alfred (Lord) Tennyson
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
- There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
- So I triumphed ere my passion sweeping through me left me dry, Left with the palsied heart, and left me with the jaundiced eye; Eye, to whi…
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- Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
- Make me feel the wild pulsation that I felt before the strife, When I heard my days before me, and the tumult of my life; Yearning for the …
- Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.