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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion
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Often have I sighed to measureBy myself a lonely pleasure,Sighed to think, I read a bookOnly read, perhaps, by me.
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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.
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More like a man/ Flying from something that he dreads than one/ Who sought the thing he loved.
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Many are our joysIn youth, but oh! what happiness to liveWhen every hour brings palpable accessOf knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,And sorrow is not there!
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
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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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Four years and thirty, told this very week,Have I been now a sojourner on earth,And yet the morning gladness is not goneWhich then was in my mind.
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished
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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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And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the lawIn calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
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A slumber did my spirit seal;/ I had no human fears:/ She seemed a thing that could not feel/ The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force;/ She neither hears nor sees;/ Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. . .
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A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.
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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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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
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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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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
By William Wordsworth