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Us Quotes by William Wordsworth
- We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and…
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
- Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh…
- Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life,…
- Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of…
- Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear…
- Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
- 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…
- Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
- Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, --…
- Death is the quiet haven of us all.
- . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years…
- But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.
- Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.
- One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How,…
- Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
- 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 world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is…
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
- Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that,…
- Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life,…
- Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdombetter none:
- And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory dowe come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong