Inward Eye Quotes by William Wordsworth

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• We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up…
• The child is the father of man.
• Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
• Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
• Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."
• Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
• Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
• A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers,…
• My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake…
• For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
• All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
• Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

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