Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never done Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee Are never weary of their melody Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine That lift athirst their slender throated flowers Agape for dew falls and for honey showers These round each bush in sweet disorder run And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.

John Clare's Popular Quotes

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

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I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

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Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all ways with hap…

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The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

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For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful …

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The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

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Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

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And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

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I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

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