"The intellectual power, through words and things, Went……" — William Wordsworth
"The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!"
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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 Dim Quotes
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After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be…
— Bob Beauprez
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt…
— Joseph Addison
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth…
— Bill Bryson
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The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
— George Clooney
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in…
— Charles Lamb
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Shout out to asian girls, let the lights dim some(dim sum).
— Drake
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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen…
— Maurice Chevalier
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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and…
— Mark Twain
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes.…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
— Philip Roth
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In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an…
— Marcus Aurelius
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