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#1

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

-Michael: A Pastoral Poem”
― William Wordsworth, William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

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“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”
― William Wordsworth

tags: poetry, solitude

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#3

“Love betters what is best”
― Wordsworth

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#4

“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: reflection, thoughts, wisdom

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#5

“What we have loved
Others will love
And we will teach them how.”
― William Wordsworth

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#6

“Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.... ”
― William Wordsworth

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#7

“To begin, begin.”
― William Wordsworth

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#8

“And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.”
― William Wordsworth, Selected Poetry

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#9

“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: faith

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#10

“And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”
― William Wordsworth

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#11

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: walls

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#12

“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: water

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#13

“In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: safety, self-discovery, wordsworth

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#14

“I had melancholy thoughts...
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude

tags: melancholia

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#15

“And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much,
The self-sufficing power of solitude.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude

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#16

“I'll teach my boy the sweetest things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

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#17

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”
― William Wordsworth

tags: inspirational-attitude

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#18

“The world is too much with us.”
― William Wordsworth

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#19

“friend is the one who showes the way and walks a piece of road with us”
― William Wordsworth

tags: friend

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#20

“O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live.”
― William Wordsworth

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#21

“Our meddlesome intellect misshapen the beauteous form of things.”
― William Wordsworth

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#22

“Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.”
― William Wordsworth

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#23

“I cannot paint what then I was.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: tintern-abbey

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#24

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

tags: betrayal, disappointment

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#25

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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#26

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

tags: english-poet, inspirational, knowledge, willpower

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#27

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

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#28

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake

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#29

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
― William Blake

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#30

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
― William Blake

tags: moderation

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