"Plain living and high thinking are no more." — William Wordsworth
"Plain living and high thinking are no more."
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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 High Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
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That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth.…
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as…
— Chinua Achebe
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
— Diane Ackerman
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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
— Richard Avedon
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If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there…
— David Axelrod
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I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know…
— Dan Aykroyd
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My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I…
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