"Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest……" — William Wordsworth
"Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man."
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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 Aught Quotes
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Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
— Homer
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Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the…
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The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave…
— John Burnside
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Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men…
— Samuel Adams
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes…
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They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands…
— Fitz-Greene Halleck
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
— John Milton
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,…
— John Milton
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
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