"And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love."
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"Nature's old felicities."
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"The wealthiest man among us is the best"
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"The child shall become father to the man."
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"Wisdom sits with children round her knees."
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"Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling."
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"One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact."
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"Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance."
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"The Eagle, he was lord above"
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"Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged."
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"A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?"
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"And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."
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"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor."
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"my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion."
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
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"I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead."
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"Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone."
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"We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held."
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"Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now."
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"The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells."
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