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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves. ✨ Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1834). Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, p.339
That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophi … ▶
And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain. ✨ 'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any … ▶

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves. ✨ Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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