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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. (William Wordsworth)
On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away. View quote
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O Reader had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader you would find A tale in everything. View quote
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Give all thou canst high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more. View quote
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Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. View quote
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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. View quote
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Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. View quote
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The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. View quote
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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. View quote
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Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God the very houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still. View quote
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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. (William Wordsworth)
The light that never was, on sea or land The consecration, and the Poet's dream. View quote
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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. View quote
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Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,miserable train Turns his necessity to glorious gain. View quote
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Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee thou hast great allies Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. View quote
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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history. View quote
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Up up my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double Up up my friend, and clear your looks Why all this toil and trouble. View quote
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Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. View quote
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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again. View quote
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The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. View quote
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'What is good for a bootless bene' With these dark words begins my tale And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail. (William Wordsworth)
And he is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all. View quote
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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet. View quote
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But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things. View quote
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Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. View quote
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