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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
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Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
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For by superior energies more strict affiance in each other faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
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His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.
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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 world is lightened.
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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!
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Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
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Primroses, the Spring may love them Summer knows but little of them.
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Two voices are there one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
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The vision and the faculty divine Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
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