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The world is too much with us, late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

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Faith is a passionate intuition.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

We are, therefore, out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.