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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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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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