"He murmurs near the running brooks A music……" — William Wordsworth
"He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own."
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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 Brooks Quotes
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed.…
— Mel Brooks
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
— George Bird Grinnell
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads…
— Helen Keller
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
— Philip Sidney
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
— William Arthur Ward
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Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
— Richard Dawkins
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest,…
— William Shakespeare
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There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best…
— Louis Agassiz
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want…
— William O. Douglas
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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