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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. (William Wordsworth)
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. View quote
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But he is risen, a later star of dawn. View quote
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. View quote
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But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant. View quote
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Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. View quote
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Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance. View quote
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A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. View quote
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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. View quote
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A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave. View quote
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Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive. (William Wordsworth)
Two voices are there one is of the sea, One of the mountains,each a mighty voice. View quote
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All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them. View quote
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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. View quote
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Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach. View quote
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But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all. View quote
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Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams. View quote
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A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven. View quote
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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. View quote
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Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. View quote
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When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone. (William Wordsworth)
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. View quote
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And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore. View quote
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Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave. View quote
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To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye. View quote
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