William Wordsworth Quotes
170 William Wordsworth quotes:
"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind."
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"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."
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"With Nature never do they wageA foolish strife; they seeA happy youth, and their old ageIs beautiful and free."
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"To begin, begin."
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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"
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory"
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"Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant / Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air / Of absence withers what was once so fair?"
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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"
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"We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend"
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"We live by admiration, hope and love"
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"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."
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"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
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"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
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"The child is father of the man."
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"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
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"Faith is a passionate intuition."
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"Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams."
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"She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy."
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"She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;And love and thought and joy."
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"Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . ."
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