What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

Quote by William Wordsworth

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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

But, why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain?

But, why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain?

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking...

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking...

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

The child is father of the man.

The child is father of the man.

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will...

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will...

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's...

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's...

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my...

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my...

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

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

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.