Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
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Quotes by William Wordsworth
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
The child is father of the man.
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.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
To begin, begin.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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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