William Wordsworth Quotes
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The unconquerable pang of despised love.
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The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
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He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.
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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!
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We murder to dissect.
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I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!
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The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
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Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'
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By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!
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And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.