Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Lessons

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Lessons

“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!” — Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSpecimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1831-12-18)

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