All William Wordsworth Quotes
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
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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 in solitude.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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