William Wordsworth Quotes

Truths that wake To perish never

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Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

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my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

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The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

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The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

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Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

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In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

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A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light

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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

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But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

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As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

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The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.

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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

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A deep distress has humanised my soul.

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And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

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Rest and be thankful.

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