Emphatically such a Being lives, / Frail creature as he is, helpless as frail, / An inmate of this active universe.
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William Wordsworth: Blest the Babe, Nursed in his Mother’s arms
‘My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life’
“I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage.”
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Poem: Drop, drop slow tears (Phineas Fletcher)
In your deep floods / Drown all my faults and fears; / Nor let His eye See sin, / but through my tears.
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Poem: Lord, what is man? (Richard Crashaw)
Why should His unstain’d breast make good My blushes with His own heart-blood?
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John Buchan: Sir Archibald Roylance on the challenge to conservative values
He preached the doctrine of Challenge; of no privilege without responsibility, of only one right of man — the right to do his duty.
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St Macarius of Egypt — with William Wordsworth’s “Seclusion” (Poem)
Like ivy, round some ancient elm, they twine
In grisly folds and strictures serpentine;
Yet, while they strangle, a fair growth they bring.
For recompence — their own perennial bower.
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My chains fell off, my heart was free (Poem)
When she that bare thee saw thee crucified, O Christ, she cried out, “How canst thou that givest life die, hung in thy flesh upon a tree?”
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Jane Austen on fidelity and flirting
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
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Sir Walter Scott: How should a hero be rewarded?
It is a dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded by, the gratification of our passions.
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On the Banks of a Rocky Stream (Wordsworth)
The Holy Spirit comes to us even when we are impure. And if only He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it.
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