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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

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Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.

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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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Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

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Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

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We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

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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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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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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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Truth takes no account of centuries.

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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

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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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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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And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.

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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 holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

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I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

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Let Nature be your teacher

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