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We feel that we are greater than we know.

— William Wordsworth

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  1. Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour.
  2. The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
  3. What is pride? A whizzing rocket That would emulate a star.
  4. Lives there a man whose sole delights Are trivial pomp and city noise, Hardening a heart that loathes or slights What every natural heart e…
  5. And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time; And blanch, without the owner's c…
  6. A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not …
  7. Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind.
  8. But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

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  • growth
  • awareness
  • potential
  • self

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