"The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods……" — William Wordsworth
"The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart."
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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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The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed…
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A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep…
— Julian Jaynes
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a…
— Juvenal
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Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He…
— George Haven Putnam
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The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.
— Herbert Newton Casson
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One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the…
— Will Rogers
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
— Jeremy Taylor
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And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the…
— William Wordsworth
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