William Wordsworth quotes

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. (William Wordsworth)
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. View quote
William Wordsworth
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. View quote
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. View quote
William Wordsworth
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. View quote
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist. View quote
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. View quote
William Wordsworth
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. View quote
William Wordsworth
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. View quote
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. View quote
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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. (William Wordsworth)
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. View quote
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. View quote
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. View quote
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. View quote
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. View quote
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. View quote
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Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. View quote
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Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. View quote
William Wordsworth
We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. View quote
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The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. (William Wordsworth)
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. View quote
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The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. View quote
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The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. View quote
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Meek Walton's heavenly memory. View quote
William Wordsworth