William Wordsworth Quotes, Time Quotes, Moving Quotes

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

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Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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Plain living and high thinking are no more.

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

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How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

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Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

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The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

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Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.

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Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

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That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

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

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Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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