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The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

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A brotherhood of venerable trees.

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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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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

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Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

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And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

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

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Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

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Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

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Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

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One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

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The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

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Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

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

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