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| William Wordsworth
A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. 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. But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. Faith is a passionate intuition. For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? Lost in a gloom of uninspired research. Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. (from "Lines Composed above Tintern Abbey") One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. 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. She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years. That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. 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. The ocean is a mighty harmonist. This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. To be a moment's ornament. We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! We live by admiration, hope and love.Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. |
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