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The Good Great Man

"How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits      Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains!    It sounds like stories from the land of spirits    If any man obtain that which he merits      Or any merit that which he

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VE    For shame, dear friend, renounce this canting strain!    What would'st thou have a good great man obtain?    Place? titles? salary? a gilded chain?    Or throne of corses which his sword had slain?  Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends!  Hath he not always treasures, always friends,  The good great man? three treasures,

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TS, regular as infant's breath:  And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,

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Form: irregularly rhyming

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend W…

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