"Father! - to God himself we cannot give…" — William Wordsworth
"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
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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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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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Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
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More Cannot Give Quotes
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one of 129 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad…
— Anne Bronte
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your…
— Henri Nouwen
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
— Benjamin Franklin
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There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to…
— Cesar Chavez
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Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.
— Tristan Bernard
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[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.
— Christopher Fowler
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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not…
— Henri Poincare
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us…
— Sigmund Freud
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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience…
— Abraham Lincoln
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