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Mind Quotes by William Wordsworth
- Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
- My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they…
- To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.
- Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
- Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear…
- Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget…
- In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
- The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight,…
- O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.
- In years that bring the philosophic mind.
- Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought…
- In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings,…
- Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
- . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years…
- Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it…
- In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and…
- The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
- A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting…
- 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…
- The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
- A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
- 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…
- I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated…
- I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient…
- In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle