The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Quote by William Wordsworth

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon...

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon...

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power...

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power...

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world,...

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world,...

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it...

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it...

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely...

We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely...

With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and...

With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and...

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil...

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not...

Drink, pretty creature, drink!

Drink, pretty creature, drink!

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force...

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force...

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in...

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in...

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

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

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too...

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too...

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless...

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless...

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...