1802 · Skopia

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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

1802

★ 6.9

The Child is father of the Man.

William Wordsworth

1802

★ 3.7

Personal journal

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and about them; some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

Dorothy Wordsworth

1802

★ 3.5

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

Thomas Campbell

Lochiels's Warning · 1802

★ 3.5

Religious literature

Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place... The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

1802

★ 3.5

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

1802

★ 1.9

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

1802

★ 1.9

Religious literature

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand

1802

★ 1.9