Quote#Hope
I may not hope from outward forms to win
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dejection: An Ode (1802), St. 3.
English (original)
I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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