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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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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

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May books and nature be their early joy!

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

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'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

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This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

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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 few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

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In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

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Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.

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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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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

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Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.

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

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A brotherhood of venerable trees.

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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

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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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Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

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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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