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A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.

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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

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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.

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The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

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"One impulse from a vernal wood

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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

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Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

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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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Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

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Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

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