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The child is father to the man.


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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.



one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is 	too few.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.



Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.



That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.



How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.



I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.



Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.



With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.



Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.



The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.





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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

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