The best Quotes by William Wordsworth

The best Quotes by William Wordsworth

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).

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

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Humility Shyness

Under the shadow of a stately Pile,
The dome of Florence, pensive and alone,
Nor giving heed to aught that passed the while,
I stood, and gazed upon a marble stone,
The laurelled Dante's favourite seat. A throne,

To begin, begin!

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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To attract love, we run the risk of losing it.

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Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against because they read novels that tell them these tricks.

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Fear is the mother of foresight.

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

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And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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I don't consider myself to be the best... and I don't like compliments... they distract me.

Jimi Hendrix

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Humility Talent Compliments

He has the most who is most content with the least.

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Happiness Humility

And now he’s dear and so unsure; I wonder why I didn’t see it there before.

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

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Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes.

Syd Tha Kyd

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Profoundness Shyness

If Italy were Mona Lisa then Florence would be her smile.

You will begin to wonder that human daring ever achieved anything so magnificent.

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