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William Wordsworth Inspirational Quotes (460)

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
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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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Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!
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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.
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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.
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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.
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The light that never was, on sea or land The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
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There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.
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Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.
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A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!
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But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?
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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.
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And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
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Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?
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Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
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How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.
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Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!
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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.
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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.
William Wordsworth
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