Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPrompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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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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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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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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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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A tale in everything.
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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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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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Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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