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William Wordsworth
England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet
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On Nature:
The Eagle, he was lord above,
And Rob was lord below.
Rob Roy's Grave
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On Divine:
Shalt show us how divine a thing
A woman may be made.
To a Young Lady. Dear Child of Nature
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On God:
Pan himself,
The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god!
The Excursion
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On Nature:
The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.
Lucy Gray
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May no rude hand deface it,
And its forlorn hic jacet!
Ellen Irwin
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On Past:
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago.
The Solitary Reaper
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On Life:
A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.
The Fountain
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On Love:
A Briton even in love should be
A subject, not a slave!
Ere with Cold Beads of Midnight Dew
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On Music:
But hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.
Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
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On Wisdom:
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar,
The Excursion
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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