Meanings of wise passiveness in anglès

But he tried at times to slumber, sunk in a wise passiveness.

We want activity, no doubt, but we want a wise passiveness as its foundation.

All that was required was a ' wise passiveness' and 'a heart that watches and receives'.

Wordsworth's " wise passiveness" was utterly foreign to his nature.

He calls this latter a " wise passiveness"- a"dreaming" :butis nevertheless an active passivity- awakingdream.

I am for Wordsworth's creed of " wise passiveness."

In the Koran, God tells Muhammad to listen to the incoherent meaning carefully and with what Wordsworth would call 'a wise passiveness'.

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