I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me. I have no authority to be believed, nor do I want it, feeling myself too ill-instructed to instruct others. (Montaigne)
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There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore; --
Turn whereso'er I may,
By night or day.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality [1802-04 (1807)]
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