William Wordsworth Quotes, Patience Quotes, Father Quotes

Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

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Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

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But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

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Truth takes no account of centuries.

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May books and nature be their early joy!

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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.

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There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

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Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

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Nature's old felicities.

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

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Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

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A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

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Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

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A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.

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