"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.“
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
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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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"Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth."
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"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
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