If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But p…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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 us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. ✨ In Thomas Allsop 'Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge' (18 December 1831)
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