Quotes by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

English poet

Lived from: 1770 - 1850

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 7 april 1770 Died: 23 april 1850

  • Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
  • But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
  • 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.
  • The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
  • This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
  • A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
  • That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
  • The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
  • Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
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  • Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
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  • Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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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.
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  • A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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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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  • A noble aim faithfully kept is a noble deed.
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  • Bless was it in that dawn to be alive,/But to be young was very heaven.
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  • Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
    But to be young was very heaven.
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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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  • Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
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  • Faith is a passionate intuition.
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  • Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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  • For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
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  • For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
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  • Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
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  • Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
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  • Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
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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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  • How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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  • I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li
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What are the most famous quotes from William Wordsworth?

The two most famous quotes from William Wordsworth are:

  • "Lost in a gloom of uninspired research."
  • "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

When did William Wordsworth live?

William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and died in the year 1850.