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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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A bitter and perplexed What shall I do? Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
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