"One that would peep and botanize Upon his…" — William Wordsworth
"One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."
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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 Grave Quotes
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the…
— Francis Bacon
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
— Abigail Adams
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
— Henry Adams
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where…
— Marek Belka
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
— Georg Buchner
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
— Pearl S. Buck
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