Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHOften in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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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 eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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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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And I am happy when I sing.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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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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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
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