"True dignity abides with him alone Who, in……" — William Wordsworth
"True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart."
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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
— Arthur Ashe
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
— Lucretius
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and…
— Alice Meynell
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.
— John Owen
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Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature…
— Rajneesh
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
— Robert Browning
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the…
— Helen Keller
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their…
— Pericles
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Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word…
— Brigitte Gabriel
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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