Country Quote by William Wordsworth

“When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?”

William Wordsworth

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Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

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Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

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The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our…

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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

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The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

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And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

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The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

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“She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament: Her eyes…

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