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The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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Cumbria
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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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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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Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.
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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
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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, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.
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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.
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A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
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Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.
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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
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Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.
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Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains and of all that we behold from this green earth.
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Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
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