Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop; To our infirmity.
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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.William Wordsworth
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.
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I made no vows, but vows; Were then made for me bond unknown to me; Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated spirit.
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Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
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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.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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