William Wordsworth Quote: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-ho…

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.