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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world
The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me, her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.
Suffices me, her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.
Peter Bell
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion take their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.
That for oblivion take their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.
Sky-Prospect from the Plain of France
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.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours.
Miscellaneous Sonnets
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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
Human, All Too Human
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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