"How many of our virtues originate in the……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death &… - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?"

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