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William Wordsworth
England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet
216 Quotes
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On Truth:
Truths that wake,
To perish never.
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On Glory:
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
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On Philosophy:
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
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On Nature:
The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose.
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On Past:
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction.
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On Immortality:
At length the man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.
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On Nature:
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
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On Sadness:
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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On Immortality:
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.
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On Nature:
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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