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" A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. "
Acting
Savage
Unknown
" But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. "
Lovely
Age
Bright
" Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. "
Your
Things
Teacher
" Faith is a passionate intuition. "
Faith
Passionate
Intuition
" Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. "
Heart
Your
Paper
" For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. "
Sad
Nature
Music
" Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. "
Lay
Getting
Waste
" Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. "
Round
Sports
Idleness
" How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. "
Bold
Flower
Freedom
" 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. "
More
Hill
Heart
" In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. "
Honest
Know
Man
" 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. "
Past
Live
Life
" Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. "
Never
Her
Heart
" Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. "
Hope
Mourn
Suffer
" One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. "
Moral
Evil
Good
" Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. "
Sleep
Glory
Forgetting
" Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. "
More
Art
Pictures
" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "
Feelings
Emotion
Poetry
" Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. "
Adore
Living
High
" Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. "
Obscure
Nature
Dark
" That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. "
Best
Little
Kindness
" 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. "
Back
Strength
Sympathy
" The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. "
Man
Good
Love
" The child is father of the man. "
Father
Child
Man
" The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. "
Sweetest
Smells
Shy
" 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. "
Mind
Beauty
Dignity
" The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. "
Age
Leaves
Wise
" The ocean is a mighty harmonist. "
Nature
Ocean
Mighty
" The things which I have seen I now can see no more. "
Seen
Which
More
" 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. "
Us
See
Nature
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