Religion
Charity in Thought
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Religion
To praise men as good, and to take them for such,
Is a grace which no soul can mete out to a tittle;--
Of which he who has not a little too much,
Will by Charity's gauge surely have much too little.
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Codex Note
? 1830
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