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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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Cockermouth
Cumbria
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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.
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the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.
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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.
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Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
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Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all
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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, shall ever prevail against us.
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The eye— it cannot choose but see we cannot bid the ear be still our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.
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Give all thou canst high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
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For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
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Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
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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 me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.
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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 no heed at all?
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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
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Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
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Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
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Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
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The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.
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Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.
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