William Wordsworth Quotes, Pride Quotes, Boys Quotes

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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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

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

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

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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

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Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

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One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

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in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

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

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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.

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A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.

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By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

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Dreams, books, are each a world.

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

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Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

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