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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

William Wordsworth

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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Joy Live Nature Ourselves Remember
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
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Flower Nature
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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Glory God Heaven Home Ourselves
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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Grief Happiness Ourselves
In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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Hands Ourselves Right Safety
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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Flower Freedom
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Darkness Nature Suffering
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
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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Rule Strong
My heart leaps up when I behold
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Heart Myself
The 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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Born Flower Joy Thinking
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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Famous Joy Man Singer
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be.
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Future Life Past Philosphy Present
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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Character God Humble Independent Success Togetherness
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

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