A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHThe 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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Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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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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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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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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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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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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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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And we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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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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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.
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