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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
Critic
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
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Ottery St Mary
Devon
S. T. Coleridge
Heart
Repentance
Dews
Poison
Weeps
Gentle
Inmost
Tears
Pierced
Proud
Dew
Tree
Drops
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Gloomy
True
Remorse
Balmy

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