William Wordsworth Quotes

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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion take their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.

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Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,
Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;
There's not a breathing of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

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I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.

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And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.

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Leaving the tumultuous throng,
To cut across the reflex of a star;
Image, that, flying still before me, gleamed
Upon the glassy plain.

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If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

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Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.

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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this.

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Often have I sighed to measure
By myself a lonely pleasure,—
Sighed to think I read a book,
Only read, perhaps, by me.

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Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

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Thou, while thy babes around thee cling,
Shalt show us how divine a thing
A Woman may be made.

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As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation.

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And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.

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Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.

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A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more.

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As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

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Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight,
And custom lie upon thee with a weight,
Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!

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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

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