Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPoetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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Often in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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And I am happy when I sing.
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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