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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth
Love, Inspirational, Life
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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.

William Wordsworth
Life, Future, Past
Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions, www.gov.uk. June 30, 2010.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

William Wordsworth
War, Mind, World
William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.554

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

William Wordsworth
I Love You, Birthday, Marriage

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

William Wordsworth
Mind, Silent, Stores
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.364, e-artnow

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

William Wordsworth
Power, Names, Imagination
'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 14, l. 190

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

William Wordsworth
Feelings, Doe, Tedious
William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.3795, Delphi Classics

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

William Wordsworth
Death, Memories, Headstone
William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

William Wordsworth
Art, Real, Power

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth
Love, Nature, Betrayal
William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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.

William Wordsworth
Life And Love, Eye, Romantic Love

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth
Powerful, Poetry, Feelings
Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

William Wordsworth
Inspirational, Motivation, Experience

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

William Wordsworth
Dream, Half, Forgotten
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.54

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

William Wordsworth
Sea, Forever, Mind
The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

William Wordsworth
Moving, Knowing, Waiting
William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.386

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth
Flower, Smell, Shy

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

William Wordsworth
Nature, Teach
William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, p.371, London E. Moxon 1850.

Let Nature be your teacher

William Wordsworth
Teacher, Nature, Science
William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

William Wordsworth
Life, World, Care
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.151

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

William Wordsworth
Years, Joy, Enough
William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.2094, Delphi Classics

All that we behold is full of blessings.

William Wordsworth
Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kids
William Wordsworth (2016). “Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and Other Poems”, p.14, Michael O'Mara Books

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth
Life, Beauty, Beautiful
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth
Positive, Weed, Wisdom

Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

William Wordsworth
Eye, Quiet, Harvest
"A Poet's Epitaph" l. 51 (1800)

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