To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHAs high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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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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There is creation in the eye.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
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All that we behold is full of blessings.
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Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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There is a comfort in the strength of love; ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
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Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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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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