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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One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

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True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

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And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

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Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

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The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

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The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'

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Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

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Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

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

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Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

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Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

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The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

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The budding rose above the rose full blown.

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

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