Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHHe 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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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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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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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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The memory of the just survives in Heaven.
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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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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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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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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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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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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
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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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