Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHThe education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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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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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.
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
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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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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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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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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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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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