5 William Wordsworth Quotes on Ethics

William Wordsworth quotes on ethics

14. Rapine, avarice, expense This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

82. Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

152. A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

192. Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more.

193. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.