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.
タグ: wisdom, experience

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge"の他の名言

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
タグ: degree, common-sense, world, wisdom
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
タグ: language, mind, past, future
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
タグ: sing, bad, die, nature
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
タグ: my-life, man, dreams, life
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
タグ: stolen, suspicious, being, always
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