As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHChains 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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My heart leaps up when I behold
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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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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
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Often in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
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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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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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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
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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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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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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.
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