William Wordsworth Quotes, Children Quotes, Father Quotes

The child is father of the man.

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Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.

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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

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Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

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The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.

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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

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Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!

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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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A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

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"One impulse from a vernal wood

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Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

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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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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

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Faith is a passionate intuition.

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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

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

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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

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Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together.

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