May books and nature be their early joy!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHTo 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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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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And we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
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A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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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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Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
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And I am happy when I sing.
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A tale in everything.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
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