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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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In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

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How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

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Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.

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This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

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Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

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A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

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The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

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The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

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Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

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The child is father of the man.

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The very flowers are sacred to the poor.

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The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

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