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

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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.

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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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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

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The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!

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Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

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The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'

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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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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

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I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

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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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The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

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The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

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Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

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