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William Wordsworth

“Knowledge, for us, is difficult to gain—
Is difficult to gain and hard to keep—
As Virtue's self; like Virtue is beset
With snares; tried, tempted, subject to decay.
Love, admiration, fear, desire, and hate,
Blind were we without these; through these alone
Are capable to notice or discern
Or to record; we judge, but cannot be
Indifferent judges.”

William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
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The Excursion 1814 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834) The Excursion 1814 by William Wordsworth
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