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Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.
Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Book of Wise Sayings (1893) (1893 AD)
Saying 36 · printed source label: Coleridge · entry translator not specified
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