Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
Quote by William Wordsworth
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
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William Wordsworth Quotes
- 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 We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon
- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
- To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
- Nature never did betray, The heart that loved her.
- 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.
- Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
- How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
- The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
- A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
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