William Wordsworth Quotes

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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.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Future, Past

  Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions, www.gov.uk. June 30, 2010.

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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  Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Mind, World

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.554

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• Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

  William Wordsworth

  I Love You, Birthday, Marriage

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• Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Memories, Headstone

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

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• Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

  William Wordsworth

  Feelings, Doe, Tedious

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.3795, Delphi Classics

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

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Real, Power

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• Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Betrayal

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.

  William Wordsworth

  Life And Love, Eye, Romantic Love

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• Imagination, which in truth
  Is but another name for absolute power
  And clearest insight, amplitude of mind,
  And reason, in her most exalted mood.

  William Wordsworth

  Power, Names, Imagination

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 14, l. 190

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  Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

  William Wordsworth

  Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

  Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

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• The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Experience

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• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Smell, Shy

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• Let Nature be your teacher

  William Wordsworth

  Teacher, Nature, Science

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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• A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Mind

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• All that we behold is full of blessings.

  William Wordsworth

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kids

  William Wordsworth (2016). “Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and Other Poems”, p.14, Michael O'Mara Books

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• We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

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  Years, Joy, Enough

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.2094, Delphi Classics

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• For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

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  Perspective, All Things, Seems

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.291

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• What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Teach

  William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, p.371, London E. Moxon 1850.

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• Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

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  Humble, Character, Two

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• The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

  William Wordsworth

  Ocean, Sea, Environment

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• Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

  William Wordsworth

  Glory, Gentle

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.2096, Delphi Classics

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• Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Quiet, Harvest

  "A Poet's Epitaph" l. 51 (1800)

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• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

  William Wordsworth

  Positive, Weed, Wisdom

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