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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

William Wordsworth
Pride, Sorrow, Pleasure
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.158

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

William Wordsworth
Pride, Boys, Joy
'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 7

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

William Wordsworth
Art, Pride, Hands

A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

William Wordsworth
Christian, Lying, Pride
William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.355

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

William Wordsworth
Stars, Pride, Rockets

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