Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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Flowers are happy things.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
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Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.
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A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said - 'Now listen, Jack...' 'Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'
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I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
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Sometimes the beauty is easy.Sometimes you don't have to try at all.Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.
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If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
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What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
