Carv'd with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
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How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general Impossible and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Visit her, gentle Sleep with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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