William Wordsworth Quotes
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
William Wordsworth
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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
English Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 7, 1770
Date of Death:
April 23, 1850
Nationality:
English
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Related Authors:
John Keats
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alexander Pope
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
W. H. Auden
John Milton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Select William Wordsworth Quotations:
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
William Wordsworth
To begin, begin.
William Wordsworth
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.
William Wordsworth
The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth
Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth
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.
William Wordsworth
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Quote Keywords:

Believe,
Find,
Need,
Out,
Will,
Wish
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Dictionary Links:

Believe,
Find,
Need,
Out,
Will,
Wish
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All William Wordsworth Quotations:
A multitude of causes unknown to...
But an old age serene and...
Come forth into the light of...
Faith is a passionate intuition.
Fill your paper with the breathings...
For I have learned to look...
Getting and spending, we lay waste...
Golf is a day spent in...
How does the Meadow flower its...
I listened, motionless and still; And...
In modern business it is not...
Life is divided into three terms...
Nature never did betray the heart...
Not without hope we suffer and...
One impulse from a vernal wood...
Our birth is but a sleep...
Pictures deface walls more often than...
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry...
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark...
That best portion of a man's...
That though the radiance which was...
The best portion of a good...
The child is father of the man.
The flower that smells the sweetest...
The human mind is capable of...
The mind that is wise mourns...
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
The things which I have seen...
The world is too much with...
To begin, begin.
To me the meanest flower that...
What is pride? A rocket that...
What we need is not the...
When from our better selves we...
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we...
With an eye made quiet by...
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