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S. T. Coleridge · 39 of 112

APHORISM XXXVIII.

Leighton.

Those who think themselves high-spirited, and will bear least, as they speak, are often, even by that, forced to bow most, or to burst under it; while humility and escape many a burden, and many a blow, always keeping peace within, and often without, too.