“There is a special character of greatness about humility for it implies…” — William Wordsworth

“There is a special character of greatness about humility for it implies that a man can, in an unusual degree, estimate the greatness of what is above us.”

Linking humility with the ability to recognise realities greater than oneself · Conversation, recollected by Aubrey de Vere

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About William Wordsworth

7 April 1770–23 April 1850

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the northwestern corner of England, and died on 23 April 1850 at Rydal Mount in the Lake District. Few poets have altered English literary culture so thoroughly. With Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped establish the principles of…

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