William Wordsworth Quotes, Garden Quotes, Water Quotes

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

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He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

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Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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

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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

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No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.

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The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

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

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Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

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Death is the quiet haven of us all.

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There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

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Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

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Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet

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

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Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

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