The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

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

  2. Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

  3. Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

  4. Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be...

  5. The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest– Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.

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