To most men, experience is like the stern...... Quote by "Samuel Taylor Coleridge"

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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