William Wordsworth

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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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“Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her.”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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“Rest and be thankful.”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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“Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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“And yet the wiser mind

Mourns less for what age takes away

Than what it leaves behind.”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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“poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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“One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man,

Of moral evil and of good,

Than all the sages can.”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

good die first

“The good die first.”

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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"Have I not reason to lament

What man has made of man?"

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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"The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition."

― William Wordsworth (1770-1850)