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He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

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Small service is true service, while it lasts.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

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Earth helped him with the cry of blood.

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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

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I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

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

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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.

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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

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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.

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Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

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That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

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For nature then to me was all in all.

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True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

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