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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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The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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When thieves come, I bark when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.
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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.
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