"Truth takes no account of centuries."
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William Wordsworth quotes (page 23 of 24)
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"Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through."
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"I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings."
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"Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood."
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"Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green."
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"The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!"
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"Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams."
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"Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect."
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"The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'"
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"And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few."
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"The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will."
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"Meek Walton's heavenly memory."
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"Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all."
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"A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free."
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"Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility."
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"Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can."
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"The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift."
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"Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same."
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"And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all."
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"He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own."
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