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… with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Power

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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Age

4.6 · 60 votes · 185 reads

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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

Generosity

4.9 · 56 votes · 126 reads

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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

Animals

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Music

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William Wordsworth

Time
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
4.7 · 34 votes · 35 reads
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Society
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
3.7 · 39 votes · 127 reads
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Feelings
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li
4.7 · 11 votes · 77 reads
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Art and Culture
I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.
4.7 · 57 votes · 55 reads
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Society
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, beco
3.4 · 60 votes · 5 reads
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Virtues
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
4.1 · 48 votes · 182 reads
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Nature
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
4.2 · 16 votes · 109 reads
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Thought and Reason
Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams -can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
3.5 · 11 votes · 73 reads
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Various
Small service is true service, while it lasts.
3.9 · 43 votes · 17 reads
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Various
That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
4.6 · 54 votes · 191 reads
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Feelings
That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
5.0 · 27 votes · 156 reads
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Time
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
3.1 · 5 votes · 174 reads
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Virtues
The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
4.2 · 11 votes · 143 reads
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Time
The child is the father of the man.
5.0 · 53 votes · 51 reads
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Nature
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
3.4 · 22 votes · 38 reads
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Virtues
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
4.7 · 60 votes · 10 reads
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Time
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
4.6 · 10 votes · 124 reads
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Time
The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
4.4 · 37 votes · 185 reads
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Society
This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
4.7 · 62 votes · 185 reads
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Nature
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
4.6 · 38 votes · 78 reads
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Nature
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
3.7 · 19 votes · 43 reads
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Various
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
4.6 · 23 votes · 190 reads
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