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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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Flower Oneself Worth
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
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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Famous Joy Man Singer
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
And I am happy when I sing.
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Happiness Myself Sing
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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Break Sea Silence Voice
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
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Fear Feeling Future Healing Himself Love Past Spirit World
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Heart Herself Love Nature
Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Rare Wait
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Glory Greatness Hard
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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Rule Strong
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Feeling Ourselves Pleasure Pride
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
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
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
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

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

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