William Wordsworth Quotes, Pain Quotes, Struggle Quotes

We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

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

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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.

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Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

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And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

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Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

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Free as a bird to settle where I will.

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As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

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Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

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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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The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

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Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

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Let Nature be your teacher

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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

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