William Wordsworth
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.Collection: Art
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.Collection: Gardening
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.Collection: Power
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.Collection: Music
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.Collection: Sympathy
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.Collection: Business
Faith is a passionate intuition.Collection: Faith
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Future
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.Collection: Nature
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.Collection: Age
The child is father of the man.Collection: Dad
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.Collection: Love
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.Collection: Nature
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.Collection: Attitude
To begin, begin.Collection: Motivational
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.Collection: Life
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.Collection: Power
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Beauty
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.Collection: Business
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.Collection: Freedom
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.Collection: Wisdom
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.Collection: Sympathy
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.Collection: Nature
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Nature
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.Collection: Nature
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.Collection: Sports
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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.
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.Collection: War
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.Collection: I Love You
How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.Collection: Art
Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.Collection: Death
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.Collection: Life And Love
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.Collection: Sea
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.Collection: Inspirational
There is creation in the eye.Collection: Eye
Let Nature be your teacherCollection: Teacher
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.Collection: Years
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.Collection: Humble
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.Collection: Glory
All that we behold is full of blessings.Collection: Thanksgiving