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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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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
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