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Let Nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

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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Flower Freedom
Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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Greatness Hands Man Wisdom
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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Gift Nature
Love betters what is best.
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Best Love One Liner
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
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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Body Fear Guilty Oneself
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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Glory Happiness
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
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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Rule Strong
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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Glory Greatness Hard
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
True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Till heart with heart in concord beats, and the lover is beloved.
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Beauty Heart Love See True
My heart leaps up when I behold
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Heart Myself
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
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
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
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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Best Growth Myself Old Relationship
One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
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Face Oneself Soul Word
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
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Darkness Nature Suffering
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
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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Habit Reflection Rule
A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
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Comfortable Light Perfection Spirit Woman
One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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Flower Oneself Worth
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
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

Let Nature be your teacher.

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