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• The memory of the just survives in Heaven.

  William Wordsworth

  Memories, Heaven

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.863, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wisdom married to immortal verse.

  William Wordsworth

  Wisdom, Married, Immortal

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.334

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• Faith is a passionate intuition.

  William Wordsworth

  Faith, Spiritual, Wisdom

  "Trust on Trial: Who Do You Trust and Why?". Book by Cecile T. Massé, p. 33, 2010.

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• I travelled among unknown men,
  In lands beyond the sea;
  Nor England! did I know till then
  What love I bore to thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Travel

  'I travelled among unknown men' (1807)

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• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, World, Littles

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Silence, Moments

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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• That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Solitude, Inward

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• ... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Pleasure

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.152, Pearson Education

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• A brotherhood of venerable trees.

  William Wordsworth

  Brother, Tree, Brotherhood

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.28

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• Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

  William Wordsworth

  Light, Dwelling, Sun

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

  William Wordsworth

  Wisdom, Children, Knees

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Sleep, Afterlife

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
  The periwinkle trails its wreath;
  And 'tis my faith that every flower
  Enjoys the air it breathes.
  
  The birds around me hopped and played,
  Their thoughts I cannot measure;
  But the least motion which they made,
  It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
  
  The budding twigs spread out their fan,
  To catch the breezy air;
  And I must think, do all I can
  That there was pleasure there.
  
  If this belief from heaven be sent,
  If such be Nature's holy plan,
  Have I not reason to lament
  What man has made of man?

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Flower, Men

  William Wordsworth, “Written In Early Spring”

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• Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Heart, Blood

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 26

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• From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

  William Wordsworth

  Forgiveness, Body, Haunting

  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.239

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• In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

  William Wordsworth

  Prison, Doom

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.159

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

  William Wordsworth

  Wisdom, Greatness, Men

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.542, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Lying, Feet

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.337

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Baby, Sleep

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky:
  So was it when my life began;
  So is it now I am a man;
  So be it when I shall grow old,
  Or let me die!
  The Child is father of the Man;
  I could wish my days to be
  Bound each to each by natural piety.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Children, Father

  "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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• In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

  William Wordsworth

  Hands, Safety

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.257

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• I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Ocean, Men

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Humanity, Environmental

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

  William Wordsworth

  Strong, Intuition, Instinct

  William Wordsworth (1838). “The Sonnets of William Wordsworth: Collected in One Volume, with a Few Additional Ones, Now First Published”, p.157

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• My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Men, Sky

  "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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