Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. – William Wordsworth

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. – William Wordsworth
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. – William Wordsworth
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”