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a few lines from Renascence (by Edna St. Vincent Millay) The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky -- No higher than the soul is high.
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a few lines from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (by Lord Byron) There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, [with] music in its roar. I love not man the less, but nature more ....
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a few lines from Walden (by Henry David Thoreau) I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.
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