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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes: Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
         

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.


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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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