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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

~William Wordsworth

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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

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

~William Wordsworth

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

~William Wordsworth

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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.

~William Wordsworth

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: April 7th, 1770

Died: April 23rd, 1850

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