Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHFrom the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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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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And I am happy when I sing.
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Let Nature be your teacher.
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We live by admiration, hope and love.
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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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There is creation in the eye.
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One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
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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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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
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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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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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