"As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay."
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"In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air."
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"Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride."
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"Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth."
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"Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity."
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"For all things are less dreadful than they seem."
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"While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest."
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"Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives."
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"Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found."
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"in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things."
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"In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness."
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"Truths that wake To perish never"
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"Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!"
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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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"The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!"
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"Books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will."
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"She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy."
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"O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything."
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"Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart."
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"I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation."
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