William Wordsworth Quotes, Art Quotes, Moving Quotes

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

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

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Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

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The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

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

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In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

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And I am happy when I sing.

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet

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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

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Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

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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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But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

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A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

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Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

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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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Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

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