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• And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Worthy, Seems

  William Wordsworth (1828). “The Poetical Works”, p.227

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• Earth helped him with the cry of blood.

  William Wordsworth

  Blood, Earth, Cry

  William Wordsworth (1827). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.354

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• Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Book, Toil

  'The Tables Turned' (1798)

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• A deep distress has humanised my soul.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Distress, My Soul

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• Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Anon, Breeze

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.136

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• She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Differences, Graves

  'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' (1800)

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• One in whom persuasion and belief
  Had ripened into faith, and faith become
  A passionate intuition.

  William Wordsworth

  Intuition, Passionate, Belief

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem”, p.161

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• The wealthiest man among us is the best

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Wealth

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.255

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• She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Sad, Spring

  'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' (1800)

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• But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Champion, Tilt

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

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• Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

  William Wordsworth

  Generosity, Giving, Heaven

  William Wordsworth, “Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge”

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• Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Fall, Sleep

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.491

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• In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

  William Wordsworth

  Sadness, Heaven, Sorrow

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.215

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• Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

  William Wordsworth

  Fire, May, Losing

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.534, Wordsworth Editions

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• The child shall become father to the man.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Father, Men

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• Nature's old felicities.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Felicity

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.254

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• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Sea, Heaven

  1802 'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1-8 (published 1807).

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• Books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Book, Age

  William Wordsworth (1841). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.135

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• A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

  William Wordsworth

  Food, Cooking, Boards

  'A genial hearth' (1822)

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• I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Heaven, Body

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.33-8 (published 1850).

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• The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Depth, Approval

  'Laodamia' (1815) l. 74

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• I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

  William Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Memories, Purity

  William Wordsworth, Robert Burns (1816). “A letter to a friend of Robert Burns occasioned by an intended republication of the account of the life of Burns, by dr. Currie [in The works of Robert Burns].”, p.18

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• Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

  William Wordsworth

  Kind, Shelves, Statutes

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.201

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• Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

  William Wordsworth

  Pain, Loss, Sorrow

  'The Solitary Reaper' from 'Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803'

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• How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Work

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 17

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