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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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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
William Wordsworth
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Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!
William Wordsworth -
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth -
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
William Wordsworth -
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
William Wordsworth -
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
William Wordsworth -
Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
William Wordsworth -
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth -
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
William Wordsworth -
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.
William Wordsworth -
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
William Wordsworth
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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
William Wordsworth -
Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
William Wordsworth -
How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
William Wordsworth -
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
William Wordsworth -
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'
William Wordsworth -
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
William Wordsworth
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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
William Wordsworth -
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.
William Wordsworth -
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth -
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
William Wordsworth