Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPrompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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Rest and be thankful.
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One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
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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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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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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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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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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of intuition.
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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Love betters what is best.
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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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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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