"The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy……" — William Wordsworth
"The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift."
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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 Bosom Quotes
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
— Joseph Addison
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…
— George Washington
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
— Thomas Brooks
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we…
— Richard Sibbes
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What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk…
— John Bunyan
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the…
— Lydia M. Child
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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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