Home » William Wordsworth William Wordsworth William Wordsworth 1 The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. William Wordsworth Beauty, Perception, mind Add to Collection 2 The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. William Wordsworth Nature, World, Too Much Add to Collection 3 A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. William Wordsworth mind, Acting, Unknown Add to Collection 4 Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. William Wordsworth Power, Waste, Getting Add to Collection 5 Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth Faith, Passionate, Intuition Add to Collection 6 The things which I have seen I now can see no more. William Wordsworth Now, See Add to Collection 7 How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. William Wordsworth Flower, Freedom, Free Add to Collection 8 One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. William Wordsworth Good, Man, Evil Add to Collection 9 Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. William Wordsworth Art, Walls, Pictures Add to Collection 10 In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. William Wordsworth Business, Man, Doing Add to Collection 11 For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. William Wordsworth Music, Nature, Sad Add to Collection 12 Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. William Wordsworth Thinking, Living, High Add to Collection 13 But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. William Wordsworth Age, Old Age, Night Add to Collection 14 When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth Business, World, Tired Add to Collection 15 Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. William Wordsworth Sports, Day, Golf Add to Collection 16 The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. William Wordsworth Age, Wise, mind Add to Collection 17 What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. William Wordsworth Stars, Attitude, Pride Add to Collection 18 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. William Wordsworth Sleep, Clouds, Birth Add to Collection 19 What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. William Wordsworth Believe, Wish, Find Add to Collection 20 Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth Teacher, Nature, Light Add to Collection 21 The child is father of the man. William Wordsworth Father, Child, Man Add to Collection 22 The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. William Wordsworth Flower, Gardening, Shy Add to Collection 23 Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. William Wordsworth Life, Future, Past Add to Collection 24 That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth Strength, Flower, Sympathy Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »
