All WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Quotes about “Life”

“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.”
“Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.”
“O dearer far than light and life are dear.”
“While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.”
“Plain living and high thinking are no more.”
“For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.”
“Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.”
“She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!”
“Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.”
“Far from the world I walk, and from all care.”
“How is it that you live, and what is it you do?”

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