Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHWisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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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.
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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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We live by admiration, hope and love.
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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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A tale in everything.
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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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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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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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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