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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
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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Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Ancestral voices prophesying war.
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A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.
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I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.
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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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