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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.


Alfred Tennyson

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BOB SCOTT I want to knock her block off.
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LORD ALFRED TENNYSON To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume,...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, An...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all, For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood, And ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Fancy light from Fancy caught.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON