"Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find."
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"For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude"
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"Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness"
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"My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."
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"Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye."
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"The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition."
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"A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless."
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"Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance."
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"Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun."
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"The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions."
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"Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place."
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"Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!"
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"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
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"Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science"
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"We live by admiration, hope and love."
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"Rest and be thankful."
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"There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart."
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"As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed."
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"Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine."
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"We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge."
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