William Wordsworth Quotes, Time Quotes, Lying Quotes

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

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Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

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

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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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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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

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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.

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Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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The very flowers are sacred to the poor.

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For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.

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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

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The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

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