"What know we of the Blest above but……" — William Wordsworth
"What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?"
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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 Blest Quotes
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one of 76 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones,…
— William Shakespeare
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
— James Hillman
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
— Alexander Pope
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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we…
— William Butler Yeats
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
— Alexander Pope
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
— Alexander Pope
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of…
— Robert Burns
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met…
— Robert Burns
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Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their…
— John Keble
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There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he…
— Sophocles
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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts,…
— John Donne
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Blest is that government where no art thrives.
— Thomas Nashe
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