Quote from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 12:51 AM 
Categories: International, Literature, Writing, History, Hope
Categories: International, Literature, Writing, History, Hope
that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
![Alfred, Lord Tennyson, detail of an oil painting by Samuel Laurence, c. 1840; in the National …
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, detail of an oil painting by Samuel Laurence, c. 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
born Aug. 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, Eng.
died Oct. 6, 1892, Aldworth, Surrey
English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. He was raised to the peerage in 1884.
Powerful words indeed.
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