“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
Art
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
PowerAll Quotes by William Wordsworth
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
Nature“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
Strength“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.”
Future“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
Music“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
Faith“The child is father of the man.”
Dad“The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”
Nature“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.”
Business“I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.”
Music“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
Wisdom“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”
Freedom“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
Best“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
Power“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
Age“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.”
Beauty“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.”
Business“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
Nature“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
Poetry“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
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