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A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

William Wordsworth

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
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.
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Feeling Poetry Powerful
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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Dance Flower Lonely Myself Tree
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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Flower Lie Myself Tears
My heart leaps up when I behold
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Heart Myself
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Breathe Heart Yourself
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
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Beginning Enough Future Joy Ourselves Present
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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Gift Nature
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
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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Feeling Life Myself
The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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Education Philosophy
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
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Death Eyes Life Myself See Travel
But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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Himself Rise Stars
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.
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Heart Immortal Knowledge Man Poetry
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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Comfortable Sea
Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Rare Wait

A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

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