John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Wordsworth. (1770–1850) (continued) |
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| One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition. |
| The Excursion.Book iv. |
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| Spires whose “silent finger points to heaven.” 1 |
| The Excursion.Book vi. |
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| Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,—render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod! |
| The Excursion.Book vi. |
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| And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed. |
| The Excursion.Book vii. |
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| Wisdom married to immortal verse. 2 |
| The Excursion.Book vii. |
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| A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows. |
| The Excursion.Book vii. |
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| The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. |
| The Excursion.Book ix. |
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| By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same! 3 |
| The Excursion.Book ix. |
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| The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. |
| Laodamia. |
| Note 1. An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars.—Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Friend, No. 14. [back] |
| Note 2. See Milton, Quotation 297. [back] |
| Note 3. Another and the same.—Darwin: The Botanic Garden. [back] |