A Quote by William Wordsworth

Love betters what is best

William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth
English - Poet
April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

Florence King

They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

Robertson Davies

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Maya Angelou

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Aesop

Frequent the company of your betters.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

Jonathan Swift

Service that benefits the community and those in need is an act that betters us all.

Ken Howard

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Mary Astell

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

Jack Vance

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

Arthur Wimperis

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

Rick Warren

Love takes time. It's a process not a goal. Love is something that needs to be nurtured. But if there is one thing I urge you to start immediately it's focus on bringing out the best in each person on your team. When you love someone you want the best for him. You want him to shine. And the best way to do this is to help him discover the value inside him.