To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHO joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
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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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All that we behold is full of blessings.
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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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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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We live by admiration, hope and love.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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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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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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A tale in everything.
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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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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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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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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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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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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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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Rest and be thankful.
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A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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