William Wordsworth Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Self Quotes

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

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Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

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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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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

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...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.

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Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

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The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

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The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

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Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

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

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

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

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"One impulse from a vernal wood

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

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