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What hast thou, Man, that thou dar’st call thine own? What is there in thee, Man, that can be known?— Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought, Vain sister of the worm,—life, death, soul, clod— Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy God!
What hast thou, Man, that thou dar’st call thine own? What is there in thee, Man, that can be known?— Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought, Vain sister of the worm,—life, death, soul, clod— Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy God!
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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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 347 · printed citation: Coleridge · subject: KNOWLEDGE
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