"I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue."

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I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge