Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch’d in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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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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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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Love betters what is best.
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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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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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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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Let Nature be your teacher.
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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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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Poetry 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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