“Procrastination borrows of Time at Compound Interest and at last can…” — Hartley Coleridge

“Procrastination borrows of Time at Compound Interest and at last can only compound at about a farthing in the pound.”

Turning delay into a witty image of mounting debt and diminishing returns · Letter to Thomas Blackburne, 1847

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About Hartley Coleridge

19 September 1796–6 January 1849

David Hartley Coleridge was born on 19 September 1796 at Clevedon, Somerset, into one of the most celebrated, unsettled, and intellectually charged families of the English Romantic age. He was the eldest surviving child of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher, critic, and author of “The Rime of the Ancient…

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