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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

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
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Theologian
Ottery St Mary
Devon
S. T. Coleridge
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Death
Life
Inextinguishable

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