"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."
-William Wordsworth
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"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.“
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"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
-William Wordsworth
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"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
-William Wordsworth
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"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude."
-William Wordsworth
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"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 ours."
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"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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