And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHType of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
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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.
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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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Love betters what is best.
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be.
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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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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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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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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
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