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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.

William Wordsworth

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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Body Fear Guilty Oneself
And we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
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Pleasure Stars
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
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
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Love Teaching
Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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Death Destroy Memories
The memory of the just survives in Heaven.
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Heaven Memories Survive
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner’s eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
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Eyes Life Love Reason Simplicity Worry Yourself
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 light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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Dream Light Poet Sea
One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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Flower Oneself Worth
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
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
Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Rare Wait
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 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
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Darkness Nature Suffering

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