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• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Angel, Men

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Grace, Melancholy

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.163

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• A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

  William Wordsworth

  Confidence, Men, Yesterday

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.828, Delphi Classics

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• On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

  William Wordsworth

  Sadness, Men, Solitude

  1814 'The Excursion', preface, l.1-5.

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• He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

  William Wordsworth

  Used, Faculty, Infancy

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• These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.

  William Wordsworth

  Book, Wealth

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• The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

  William Wordsworth

  Wind, Tasks, Laborers

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• I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.

  William Wordsworth

  Wall, Mean, Talking

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• Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

  William Wordsworth

  Heaven, Silence, Silent

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.603

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• Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

  William Wordsworth

  Mind, Littles, Perceive

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.167

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• The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Mountain, Easy

  c.1800 The Priest. 'The Brothers', l.182-3.

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• poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

  William Wordsworth

  Poetry, Spirit, Breaths

  'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface

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• The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Fever, World

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• The child is father of the man.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Father, Men

  "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

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• Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Heart, Knowing

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

  William Wordsworth

  Compassion, Tears, Ends

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.102

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• The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

  William Wordsworth

  Accomplishment, Vision, Divinity

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 1, l. 77

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• With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Boredom, Restless

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.784, Wordsworth Editions

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• A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Beautiful, Age

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Heavenly, Dies

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.142

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• Stop thinking for once in your life!

  William Wordsworth

  Thinking

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• Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

  William Wordsworth

  Noble, Nobility, Breaths

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.214

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• In years that bring the philosophic mind.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Mind, Philosophic

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 10

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• Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Yoke, Inevitable

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 8

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• Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

  William Wordsworth

  Poetry, Comfort, Breathe

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