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Quotation from Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man; Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”
Lyrical Ballads, The Tables Turned (Gutenberg #9622: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (London: J. & A. Arch, 1798))
Wordsworth urges his friend to let nature be his teacher.
Citation: "One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man; Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can." — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, The Tables Turned (Gutenberg #9622: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (London: J. & A. Arch, 1798)). (id lyrical-ballads-q1)
