William Wordsworth quotes and words of wisdom

"Faith is a passionate intuition."
Found in the topic Faith.

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
Found in the topic Art.

"The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more."
Found in the topic Heart.

"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."
Found in the topic Business.

"Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her."
Found in the topic Betrayal.

"The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"That best portion of a good man"s life,? His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love."
Found in the topic Good.

"Action is transitory,?a step, a blow; The motion of a muscle, this way or that."
Found in the topic Action.

"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar,"
Found in the topic Wisdom.

"We feel that we are greater than we know."
Found in the topic Convince.

"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o"er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils."
Found in the topic Flower.

"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow."
Found in the topic Book.

"The Eagle, he was lord above, And Rob was lord below."
Found in the topic Bird.

"There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore: - Turn wheresoe"er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more."
Found in the topic Dream.

"A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows."
Found in the topic Tomorrow.

""My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So it was when my life began; So it is now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is Father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety"
Found in the topic Sky.

"Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now."
Found in the topic Children.

"Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."
Found in the topic Danger.

"We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held."
Found in the topic Engineer.

"The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket."
Found in the topic Death.

Interesting Quotes

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)