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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.

William Wordsworth

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
May books and nature be their early joy!
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Book Joy Nature
In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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Hands Ourselves Right Safety
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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Light Nature Teacher
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
Love betters what is best.
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Best Love One Liner
We live by admiration, hope and love.
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Hope Live Love
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Darkness Nature Suffering
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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Gift Nature
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
Faith is a passionate intuition.
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Faith Passionate
But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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Glory God Heaven Home Ourselves
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
Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
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Divine Woman
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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Eyes Joy Life Power Quiet See
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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Moments Ourselves Silence
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
That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
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Eyes Solitude
But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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Divine Grace Nature
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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Alone See Soul
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
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Heaven Home True Wisdom
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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Ocean One Liner
And I am happy when I sing.
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Happiness Myself Sing
The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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Education Philosophy
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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Ourselves Power Waste World
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Mindset Sadness Thinking
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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Forget Ourselves Rise Soul

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.

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