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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
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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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
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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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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
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A bitter and perplexed What shall I do? Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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