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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

William Wordsworth

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
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
Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
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Divine Woman
Rest and be thankful.
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One Liner Thankful
My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
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Eyes Heart Myself Tears
Faith is a passionate intuition.
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Faith Passionate
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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Rule Strong
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
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Born Flower Joy Thinking
Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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Childhood Liberty Simplicity
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 flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Flower 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
Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Rare Wait
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
We live by admiration, hope and love.
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Hope Live Love
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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Body Fear Guilty Oneself
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Darkness Nature Suffering
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
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
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
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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Dream Light Poet Sea
All that we behold is full of blessings.
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Blessing Gratitude One Liner
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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Light Nature Teacher
My heart leaps up when I behold
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Heart Myself
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Heart Herself Love Nature
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
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

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