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Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.
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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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.
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A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
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