"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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"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.“
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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"Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
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