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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds man only can utter consonants.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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No voice but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
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A bitter and perplexed What shall I do? Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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