"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the…" — William Wordsworth
"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."
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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…
- The child is the father of man.
- Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
- Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
- Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."
- Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
- Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
- A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall…
- My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
- For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
- All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to…
- Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
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