A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHThought 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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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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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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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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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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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Let Nature be your teacher.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be.
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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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We live by admiration, hope and love.
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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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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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