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'Tis the sublime of man, / Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves / Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole! / This fraternises man, this constitutes / Our charities and bearings.
'Tis the sublime of man, / Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves / Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole! / This fraternises man, this constitutes / Our charities and bearings.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Coleridge. · page_489
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