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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.

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
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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Moments Ourselves Silence
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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Expression Imagination Power Reality
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
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.
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Feeling Poetry Powerful
There is a comfort in the strength of love; ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
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Break Comfortable Endurance Heart Love Strength
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
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Alone Forever Mindset Sea
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
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Love Teaching
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Nature Philosophy Wisdom
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch’d in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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Dance End Shine Stars
But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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Himself Rise Stars
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
That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
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Eyes Solitude
One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
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Face Oneself Soul Word
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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Best Growth Myself Old Relationship
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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Rule Strong

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