"Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound." — William Wordsworth
"Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound."
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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 Dirge Quotes
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
— William Shakespeare
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Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will…
— David Duke
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... non-White Arab birthrates will make White Jewish people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will…
— David Duke
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Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
— Martial
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The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own…
— Phineas Fletcher
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What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and…
— Henry Miller
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A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or…
— Christopher Moore
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