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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

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A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light

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The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

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

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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

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We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

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

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Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

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

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear. William Winter, Love's Queen. The unconquerable pang of despised love.

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And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

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