"By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!"
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"And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore."
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"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
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"I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!"
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"Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods."
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"Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished."
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"One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue."
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"But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine."
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"Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society."
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"I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul listened intensely; for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things, Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power, And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless Agitation."
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"But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!."
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"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."
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"In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought."
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"Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life."
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"But He is risen, a later star of dawn."
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"Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be."
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"The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul."
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"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."
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"To be young was very heaven!"
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"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream."
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