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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…
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The child is the father of man.
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
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Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."
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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
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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,…
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake…
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible…
— William Wordsworth
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to…
— George Washington
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It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light
— Ovid
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Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
— John Dryden
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A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and…
— John Ford
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She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants…
— George Eliot
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Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to…
— George Washington
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