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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.
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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts they are worse, a great deal worse.
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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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