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Alfred Tennyson Quotes
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Source:
Oenone (1823); in Poems (Edward Moxon & Co., ed. 1842), Volume I, Page 125
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Alfred Tennyson
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Poet
Born:
August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892
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