Best Quotes by William Wordsworth (Top 10)
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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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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.
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More William Wordsworth Quotes
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
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There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
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Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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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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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
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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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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar;
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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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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more.
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
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The child is father of the man.
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science
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Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
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I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Hath often left me mourning.
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A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
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Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
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A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
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Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.
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A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
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