William Wordsworth Quotes About Life
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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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I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
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How is it that you live, and what is it you do?
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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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For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear. William Winter, Love's Queen. The unconquerable pang of despised 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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We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.
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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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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
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O dearer far than light and life are dear.
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Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.
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While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.
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Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
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Far from the world I walk, and from all care.
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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
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