"Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive."
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"The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold."
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"Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!"
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"Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!"
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"Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath."
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"Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour."
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"My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind."
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"Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination."
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"Stop thinking for once in your life!"
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"One of those heavenly days that cannot die."
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"The weight of sadness was in wonder lost."
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"One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."
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"As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!"
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"Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love."
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"There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead."
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"'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind."
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"Delivered from the galling yoke of time."
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"Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial."
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"Earth has not anything to show more fair."
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"To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye."
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