"Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of……" — William Wordsworth
"Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect"
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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 Beauteous Quotes
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.
— William Shakespeare
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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
— William Shakespeare
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Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins…
— William Shakespeare
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Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that…
— William C. Bryant
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Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease…
— Phineas Fletcher
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Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
— Caedmon
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Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air,…
— William Wordsworth
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There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature…
— John Ray
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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely.…
— William Shakespeare
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Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to…
— William Shakespeare
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As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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