To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHWisdom married to immortal verse.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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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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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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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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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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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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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
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Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be.
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Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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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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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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