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Alfred Tennyson Quotes

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 (Ulysses Quotes)

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.

Source:Ulysses (1842); in Poems (Edward Moxon & Co., ed. 1842), Volume II, Page 89
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  • Name: Alfred Tennyson
  • Profession: Poet
  • Born: August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892
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