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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!

William Wordsworth

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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Breathe Expression Knowledge Poetry Science Spirit
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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Glory Happiness
But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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Divine Grace Nature
Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Collection Emotion Poetry Tranquility
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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Gift Nature
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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Expression Imagination Power Reality
Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
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Darkness Growth Mortal Music Spirit Togetherness
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Mindset Sadness Thinking
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Heart Herself Love Nature
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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Ourselves Power Waste World
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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Dream Light Poet Sea
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Flower Nature
We live by admiration, hope and love.
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Hope Live Love
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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Comfortable Light Perfection Spirit Woman
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
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Heaven Home True Wisdom
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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Action Purpose Theory Thinking

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