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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Bells, the poor man's only music.
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How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
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