William Wordsworth Quotes, Thoughtful Quotes, Thinking Quotes

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

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The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

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

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What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

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

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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

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

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Meek Walton's heavenly memory.

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Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!

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Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.

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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

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One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.

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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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The unconquerable pang of despised love.

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The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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