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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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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Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.
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