William Wordsworth Quotes, Islands Quotes, Heaven Quotes

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

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The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.

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Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

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If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

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The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!

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Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

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Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

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The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

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Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

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Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

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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 is solitude.

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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

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Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

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The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

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