William Wordsworth quote: "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 comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home."

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
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To begin, begin.
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
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No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course...
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Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
'Tis done--And...
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness...
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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentime...
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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power t...
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The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and o...
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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of thin...
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help o...
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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftent...
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Small service is true service, while it lasts.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gif...
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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of li...
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That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of ...
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On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness...
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollecte...
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Behold the Child among his new-born blisses
A six years' Darling of a pigmy size!
See, where '...
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The child is the father of the man.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing...
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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, dome...
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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of al...
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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
L...
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A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of l...
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
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Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
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The Solitary answered: Such a Form
Full well I recollect. We often crossed
Each other's path...
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Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed pr...
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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtles...
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Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a s...
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Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year ...
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The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising: There are forty feeding like one!
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The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
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Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! ...
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Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew; And whom the curious...
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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...
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A famous man is Robin Hood The English ballad-singer's joy.
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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and wer...
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O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice; O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,...
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List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint, ...
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The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door.
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I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said That even there was ...
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There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of it...
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Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree! A living thing Produced too slo...
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch; Smiling I watch the...
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Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.
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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.
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The poet's darling.
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A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the ...
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The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
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Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing, Though it should prove a farewell...
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Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And...
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Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
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Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the l...
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We take no note of time But from its loss.
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A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays, And confident to-morrows.
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And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom befor...
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Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the b...
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The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow!
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Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast, Our little Engl...
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Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
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He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer.
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Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched...
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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all t...
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I heard a Stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day; His voice was buried among tr...
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As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Sever...
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Like--but oh! how different!
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Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too...
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of i...
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That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and...
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The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollecte...
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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The child is father of the man.
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sa...
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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 t...
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on hig...
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are n...
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and...
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of i...
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From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde and Ta...
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The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witching of the soft blue s...
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But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid.
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Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
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Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
W...
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn'...
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This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves An...
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to ...
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Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion! Thou, linnet! in thy green array...
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The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from a...
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Meek Walton's heavenly memory.
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Methought I say the footsteps of a throne. - William Wordsworth,
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I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I...
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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The best portions of a good man's life, his little, nameless acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of ...
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That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of l...
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She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent...
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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to form...
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.
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Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid! On me the chance-discove...
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ear...
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And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own Do spread, and sin...
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A tale in everything.
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Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I...
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Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
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Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.
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And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the li...
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At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung f...
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My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being.
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We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of bei...
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A primrose by a river's brimA yellow primrose was to him,And it was nothing more.
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Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound.
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There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset t...
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, ...
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The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!
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Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
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No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Am...
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In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,Or but a wandering voice?
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And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and goo...
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we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been ...
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In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
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As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
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The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket
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The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is m...
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Rest and be thankful.
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Sensations sweet,Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
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How men livedEven next-door neighbors, as we say, yet stillStrangers, not knowing each the other's n...
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There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset ...
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The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.
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...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of fri...
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What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Tho...
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I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of someth...
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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
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Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
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Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
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Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
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Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
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What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
T...
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble ...
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And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
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Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
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Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none;
Look up a second time, and, one by one,
...
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The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollect...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future ...
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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fount...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in...
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Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now
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And mighty poets in their misery dead.
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By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the en...
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Fears and fancies thick upon me came.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

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 comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

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William Wordsworth

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 comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

William Wordsworth

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