From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPrompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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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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Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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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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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Till heart with heart in concord beats, and the lover is beloved.
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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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A tale in everything.
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And we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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