William Wordsworth Quotes
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A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light
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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.
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We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.
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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.
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The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
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What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
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A brotherhood of venerable trees.
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Let Nature be your teacher
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On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.
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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.
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There is creation in the eye.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
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Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.