William Wordsworth Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Perception Quotes

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

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

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The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

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But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

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

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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.

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Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

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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.

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A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

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Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

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Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

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Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.

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The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

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In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

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

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A power is passing from the earth.

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