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Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.
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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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
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