William Wordsworth
18 quotations
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Small service is true service, while it lasts.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
The child is the father of the man.
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.