Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHHe spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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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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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.
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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Till heart with heart in concord beats, and the lover is beloved.
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Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be.
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The memory of the just survives in Heaven.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
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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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Rest and be thankful.
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
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