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William Wordsworth Quotes

1770–1850 England

William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads.

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Also known as: Wordsworth, Wordsworth, William

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Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Open unto the fields and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

There is a Thorn,—it looks so old,
In truth, you'd find it hard to say
How it could ever have been young,
It looks so old and gray.
Not higher than a two years child
It stands erect, this aged Thorn;
No leaves it has, no prickly points;
It is a mass of knotted joints,
A wretched thing forlorn.
It stands erect, and like a stone
With lichens is it overgrown.

The Thorn; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.

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Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd;
He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

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We take no note of time but from its loss.

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How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

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Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.

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Faith is a passionate intuition

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Wordsworth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.