If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sink…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, p.487
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, p.487

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