"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than…" — William Wordsworth
"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
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William Wordsworth
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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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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body,…
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I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
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I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start…
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
— Margaret Cavendish
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
— Brother Lawrence
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
— Herbert Hoover
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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than…
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