William Wordsworth Quotes, Nature Quotes, Humanity Quotes

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

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The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

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Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

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At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

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A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

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I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.

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If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

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A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

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Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

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Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

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Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.

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"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

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While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

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Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

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The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

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