Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHLet Nature be your teacher.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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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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Love betters what is best.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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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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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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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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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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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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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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