William Wordsworth Quotes, Wise Quotes

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

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The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

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The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

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Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

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Love betters what is best

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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

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Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.

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Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life.

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If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

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

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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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Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!

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The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

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And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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