Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHOften in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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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.
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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
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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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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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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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My heart leaps up when I behold
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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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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Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
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Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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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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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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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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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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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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