William Wordsworth Quotes, Nature Quotes, Book Quotes

May books and nature be their early joy!

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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

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Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

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There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.

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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

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

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The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

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A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

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But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

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Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.

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O dearer far than light and life are dear.

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In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

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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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A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

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