Quotes from William Wordsworth

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

Love betters what is best

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Truth takes no account of centuries.

His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them.

The child is father to the man.

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

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.

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Wisdom married to immortal verse.