"Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality."
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"Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven.""
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"On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude"
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"Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet"
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"How is it that you live, and what is it you do?"
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"The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone"
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"the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song."
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"Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings."
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"Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men."
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"...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue."
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"With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars."
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"Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!"
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"I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led."
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"For nature then to me was all in all."
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"But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover."
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"Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it."
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"The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way."
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"Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach."
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"The child is the father of man."
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"The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse."
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