To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHA famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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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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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
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We live by admiration, hope and love.
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Often in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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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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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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All that we behold is full of blessings.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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