Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHFrom the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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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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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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And I am happy when I sing.
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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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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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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All that we behold is full of blessings.
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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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One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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