Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHGreat 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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A tale in everything.
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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And we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
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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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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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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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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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There is a comfort in the strength of love; ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
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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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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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