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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

~William Wordsworth

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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The child is father of the man.

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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: April 7th, 1770

Died: April 23rd, 1850

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