Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHOur 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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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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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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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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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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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
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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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May books and nature be their early joy!
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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All that we behold is full of blessings.
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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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The memory of the just survives in Heaven.
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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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