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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.
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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Ancestral voices prophesying war.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. Thou shalt not is their characteristic formula.
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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
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