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, Lord Tennyson)

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, Lord Tennyson

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