An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire st…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, p.291
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, p.291

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