"Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy……" — William Wordsworth
"Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there."
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408 Quotes by William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth has 408 quotes on this site.
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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been…
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The child is the father of man.
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
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Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."
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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
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A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall…
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to…
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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
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More Cleave Quotes
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction…
— Zhuangzi
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Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who…
— Rumi
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading,…
— John Selden
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Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with…
— Pope Leo XIII
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[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave…
— George Saunders
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you,…
— Thomas Morell
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They…
— Gautama Buddha
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In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the…
— Basil King
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