"On a fair prospect some have looked, And……" — William Wordsworth

"On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away."

— William Wordsworth

408 Quotes by William Wordsworth

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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been…
The child is the father of man.
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall…
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to…
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

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