Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHBut He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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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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Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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Often in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
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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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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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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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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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