William Wordsworth

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October 27, 2020

Name: William Wordsworth
Born: 04/07/1770
Died: 04/23/1850 (80 years old)
Occupation: Poet

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770? 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

School: St John’s College, Cambridge

Birth Place: Cockermouth, Cumberland, England

Death Place: Rydal, Westmorland, England

Source: Wikipedia

William Wordsworth quotes :

To begin, begin.
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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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

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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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.
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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
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The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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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.
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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.
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The child is father of the man.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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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.
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