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

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  • The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
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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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  • The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
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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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  • The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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  • The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
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  • The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
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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.
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  • These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together: manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly selfreliance.
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  • 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.
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  • Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
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  • Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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  • To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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  • We live by hope; and by desire: we see by the glad light; and breathe the sweet air of futurity; and so we live, or else we have no live.
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  • What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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  • 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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  • … with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
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