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William Wordsworth: The thought of...

William Wordsworth: The thought of...

The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benedictions.


Source:...

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William Wordsworth: The sounding cataract<br>Haunted...

William Wordsworth: The sounding cataract
Haunted...

The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy...

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William Wordsworth: A flock of...

William Wordsworth: A flock of...

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by,
One after one; the sound of rain and bees
Murmuring; the fall of...

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William Wordsworth: Thou dost preserve...

William Wordsworth: Thou dost preserve...

Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong.

Source: Ode to Duty
-- William...

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William Wordsworth: Our birth is...

William Wordsworth: Our birth is...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its...

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William Wordsworth: Provoke<br>The years to...

William Wordsworth: Provoke
The years to...

Provoke
The years to bring the inevitable yoke.


Source: Ode. Intimations of...

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William Wordsworth: In the faith...

William Wordsworth: In the faith...

In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.


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William Wordsworth: Some sipping punch,...

William Wordsworth: Some sipping punch,...

Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,
But, as you by their faces see,
All silent and all...

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William Wordsworth: The dew was...

William Wordsworth: The dew was...

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;
I heard a voice; it said `Drink, pretty creature,...

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William Wordsworth: For by superior...

William Wordsworth: For by superior...

For by superior energies; more strict
Affiance in each other; faith more firm
In their unhallowed principles,...

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William Wordsworth: I made no...

William Wordsworth: I made no...

I made no vows, but vows
Were then made for me; bond unknown to me
Was given, that I should be, else sinning...

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William Wordsworth: Bliss was it...

William Wordsworth: Bliss was it...

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


Source:...

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George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at...

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Emily Dickinson: I like a...

Emily Dickinson: I like a...

I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it's true --
Men do not sham Convulsion,
Nor simulate, a Throe...

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Oscar Wilde: I always pass...

Oscar Wilde: I always pass...

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to...

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Thornton Wilder: A dramatist is...

Thornton Wilder: A dramatist is...

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any...

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Robert Frost: Some say the...

Robert Frost: Some say the...

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who...

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Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.

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Alexander Pope: All nature is...

Alexander Pope: All nature is...

All nature is but art unknown to thee,
All chance direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not...

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Alexander Pope: All crowd, who...

Alexander Pope: All crowd, who...

All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iii....

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