"Happier of happy though I be, like them……" — William Wordsworth
"Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent."
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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 Cannot Take Quotes
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
— Sholom Aleichem
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
— James Cameron
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Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods…
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After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.
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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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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you love a person, by and by the person becomes the door to the whole. But one has to…
— Rajneesh
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make…
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Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we…
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