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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes: The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
         

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.


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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.



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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.



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