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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

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But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

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

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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

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Let Nature be your teacher

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Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

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We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

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

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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

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Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

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

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Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

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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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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

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Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

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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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