"But who shall parcel out His intellect by……" — William Wordsworth
"But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?"
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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 Geometric Quotes
This quote is filed under Geometric Quotes,
one of 39 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a…
— Christian B. Anfinsen
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I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects…
— Johannes Kepler
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without…
— Vidal Sassoon
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The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction…
— Roland Barthes
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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all…
— Thomas Reid
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These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were…
— Don Berliner
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Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.
— Omar Khayyam
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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth…
— Martin Gardner
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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form
— Anish Kapoor
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I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of…
— Paul Lockhart
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