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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.
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And I am happy when I sing.
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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry and these we adore Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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Yon foaming flood seems motionless as iceIts dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.
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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
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