As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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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A tale in everything.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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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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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
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Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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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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One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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