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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.