Prompt to move but firm to wait – knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHThought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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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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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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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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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
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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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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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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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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
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And I am happy when I sing.
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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
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