Tag: William Wordsworth
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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
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth
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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth
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The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
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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
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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
William Wordsworth
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth
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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