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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
1802·Grasmere, England

The child is father of the man.

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1805

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

1807·Lake District, England

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; / We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

1798

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

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Men are what their mothers made them.

PlatoPlato·375 BC

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

James AllenJames Allen·1903

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

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