William Wordsworth Quotes (37 quotes)

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„Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.“
Picture of quotation author William Wordsworth
„The things which I have seen I now can see no more.“
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„Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.“
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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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„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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„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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„Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.“
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„What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.“
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„Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.“
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„Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.“
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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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„One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.“
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„Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.“
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„Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.“
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„What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.“
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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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„The ocean is a mighty harmonist.“
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„I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.“
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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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„Faith is a passionate intuition.“

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William Wordsworth
Author born: April 07, 1770
Author died: April 23, 1850
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Poet

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