Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and ...

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.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

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