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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. (William Wordsworth)
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams -- can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man. View quote
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And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. View quote
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Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. View quote
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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams. View quote
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A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. View quote
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. View quote
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Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. View quote
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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. View quote
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What though the radiance which was once so bright; Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour; Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find; Strength in what remains behin. View quote
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A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. (William Wordsworth)
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. View quote
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The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart. View quote
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. View quote
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Yet tears to human suffering are due And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. View quote
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He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. View quote
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. View quote
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A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. View quote
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A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death. View quote
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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me. View quote
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There is One great society alone on earth The noble living and the noble dead. (William Wordsworth)
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven. View quote
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Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. View quote
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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. View quote
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The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. View quote
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William Wordsworth

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: April 7, 1770
Died: April 23, 1850
Quotes count: 398
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