“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
Life
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
PowerAll Quotes by William Wordsworth
“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
Age“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
Faith“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“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
Power“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
Best“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“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“The child is father of the man.”
Dad“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“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”
Hope“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
Poetry“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“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“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
Art“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“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“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
Nature“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
Wisdom“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
Sports