Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 36

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 475