William Wordsworth Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

William Wordsworth quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 37 we have.

“Faith is a passionate intuition.”

“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.”

“What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.”

“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”

“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.”

“To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

“Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.”

“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.”

“One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”

“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”