Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHOur 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.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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A tale in everything.
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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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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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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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The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
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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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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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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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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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Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
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Love betters what is best.
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
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One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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