Robert BurtonThat which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.
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That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge – English Romantic poet – A man who was never known to write a line of poetry, but his writings on philosophy and religion were some of the most prominent and considered as some of the best work produced during those times.
Source: The Anatomy Of Melancholy
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