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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.
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.
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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