"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action;……" — William Wordsworth
"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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William Wordsworth
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408 Quotes by William Wordsworth
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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