Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPoetry 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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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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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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We live by admiration, hope and love.
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Let Nature be your teacher.
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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 ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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And I am happy when I sing.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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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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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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