William Wordsworth Quotes, Bird Quotes

Free as a bird to settle where I will.

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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

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A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

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

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O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

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

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Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

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The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

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Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

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That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

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Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

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Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

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Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness

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Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

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A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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