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Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

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Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

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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?

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

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Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

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The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

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Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

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A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.

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A tale in everything.

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But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

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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.

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in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

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One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

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Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.

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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

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Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

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