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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
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I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.
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All nature seems at work.
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Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Friends should be weighed, not told who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
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