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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

~William Wordsworth

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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

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

~William Wordsworth

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

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Faith is a passionate intuition.

~William Wordsworth

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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

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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.

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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: April 7th, 1770

Died: April 23rd, 1850

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