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Tranquility Quotes by William Wordsworth
- Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
More Tranquility Quotes
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. — Aphra Behn
- Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience,… — John Evelyn
- I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. — Honore de Balzac
- The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind… — John Climacus
- Tranquility is the old man's milk. — Thomas Jefferson
- It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson