Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Alfred Tennyson
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
— ALFRED TENNYSON
Poet · 1809 – 1892
English Poet Laureate; author of In Memoriam and Ulysses.
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