873 Quotes by William Wordsworth

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

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.

Turning, for them who pass, the common dustOf servile opportunity to gold.

All things that love the sun are out of doors.

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

All things have second birth;The earthquake is not satisfied at once.