William Wordsworth quotes - page 14

Mathematics is an independent world Created out of pure intelligence. (William Wordsworth)
This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning silent bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. View quote
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal silence. View quote
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Truths that wake, To perish never. View quote
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By happy chance we saw A twofold image on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same. View quote
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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. View quote
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Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger -- to let fall a tear And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man. View quote
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She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years. View quote
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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity. View quote
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The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction. View quote
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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. (William Wordsworth)
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. View quote
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For by superior energies more strict Affiance in each other faith more firm In their unhallowed principles, the bad Have fairly earned a victory o'er the weak, The vacillating, inconsistent good. View quote
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Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. View quote
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Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. View quote
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What are fears but voices airy Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot. View quote
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Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. View quote
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Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop; To our infirmity. View quote
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A deep distress hath humanized my Soul. View quote
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There is a luxury in self-dispraise And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. View quote
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His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless. (William Wordsworth)
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. View quote
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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul. View quote
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That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair. View quote
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Hearing often-times; The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power; To chasten and subdue. View quote
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