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- A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,…
- My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they…
- All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
- Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
- Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life,…
- That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
- 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…
- His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.
- Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this…
- But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take…
- Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal…
- She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as…
- Far from the world I walk, and from all care.
- By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down…
- And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's…
- 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…
- Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
- Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can…
- ...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from…
- Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science
- For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
- And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
- Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, --…
- Death is the quiet haven of us all.
- . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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