William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
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"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
William Wordsworth
"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."
William Wordsworth
"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly."
William Wordsworth
"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
William Wordsworth
"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
William Wordsworth
"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind."
William Wordsworth
"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."
William Wordsworth
"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."
William Wordsworth
"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."
William Wordsworth
"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."
William Wordsworth
"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."
William Wordsworth
"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."
William Wordsworth
"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."
William Wordsworth
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
William Wordsworth
"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."
William Wordsworth
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
William Wordsworth
"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."
William Wordsworth
"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."
William Wordsworth
"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."
William Wordsworth
"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."
William Wordsworth
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