Religion
Humility the Mother of Charity
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Religion
Frail creatures are we all! To be the best,
Is but the fewest faults to have:--
Look thou then to thyself, and leave the rest
To God, thy conscience, and the grave.
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Codex Note
? 1830
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Humility the Mother of Charity.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/282/.
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