| 101 Famous Quotes by William Wordsworth
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“A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Excursion
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“The child is father of the man.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: My Heart Leaps Up
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“Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: My Heart Leaps Up
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“How blessings brighten as they take their flight.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: My Heart Leaps Up
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“How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: My Heart Leaps Up
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“Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd
He that has none, must make them or be wretched.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: My Heart Leaps Up
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“Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: My Heart Leaps Up
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“We take no note of time
But from its loss.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: My Heart Leaps Up
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“He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.”
Suffering Quotes Source: Excursion (I, 370)
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“I look for ghosts; but none will force
Their way to me; 'tis falsely said
That even there was intercourse
Between the living and the dead.”
Apparitions Quotes Source: Affliction of Margaret
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“Of vast circumference and gloom profound,
This solitary Tree! A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.”
Yew Quotes Source: Yew-Trees
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“There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.”
Yew Quotes Source: Yew-Trees
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“Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.”
Voice Quotes Source: Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
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“Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion that their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.”
Vanity Quotes Source: Sonnet--Sky--Prospect from the Plain of France
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“Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too familiar happiness.”
Fancy Quotes Source: Ode to Lycoris
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“And hear the mighty stream of tendency
Uttering, for elevation of our thought,
A clear sonorous voice, inaudible
To the vast multitude.”
Evolution Quotes Source: Excursion (IX, 87)
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“Among the dwellings framed by birds
In field or forest with nice care,
Is none that with the little wren's
In snugness may compare.”
Wrens Quotes Source: A Wren's Nest
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“Sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.”
Feeling Quotes Source: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
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“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.”
Instinct Quotes Source: Alas! What Boots the Long Laborious Quest?
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“My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is in my ears
Which in those days I heard.”
Sound Quotes Source: The Fountain
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“There is a luxury in self-dispraise;
And inward self-disparagement affords
To meditative spleen a grateful feast.”
Self-examination Quotes Source: The Excursion (bk. IV)
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“The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising:
There are forty feeding like one!”
Animals Quotes Source: The Cock is Crowing
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“Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!
A solemn image to my heart.”
Butterflies Quotes Source: To a Butterfly
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“Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.”
Wrongs Quotes Source: The Excursion (bk. III, l. 377)
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“The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.”
Sweetness Quotes Source: Lucy Gray (st. 2)
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