William Wordsworth quotes - page 7

Whether we be young or old, Our destiny, our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be. (William Wordsworth)
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name Almighty God But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent. View quote
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Ten thousand saw I at a glance; Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. View quote
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The eye-it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will. View quote
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Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. View quote
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Action is transitory-a step, a blow- The motion of a muscle-this way or that- 'Tis done; and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed. View quote
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Full twenty times was Peter feared, For once that Peter was respected. View quote
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. View quote
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Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through. View quote
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A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears; She seemed a thing that could not feel; The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. . . View quote
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Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping-anon-anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone. (William Wordsworth)
A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest-compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. View quote
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One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact. View quote
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Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. View quote
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. View quote
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The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. View quote
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society. View quote
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A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. View quote
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A remnant of uneasy light. View quote
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The bane of all that dread the Devil. View quote
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Maidens withering on the stalk. (William Wordsworth)
The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising There are forty feeding like one. View quote
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Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! View quote
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May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn hic jacet. View quote
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In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is. View quote
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