"Nor will I then thy modest grace forget,……" — William Wordsworth
"Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!"
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William Wordsworth
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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 Chaste Quotes
This quote is filed under Chaste Quotes,
one of 89 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore de Balzac
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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men!…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As chaste as unsunned snow.
— William Shakespeare
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure…
— William Shakespeare
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
— Eric Hoffer
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
— Lord Byron
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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