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Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

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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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I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

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Stop thinking for once in your life!

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Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.

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There is creation in the eye.

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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The child is father of the man.

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It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

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

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Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn

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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

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Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

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Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

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How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

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The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

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