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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Angel, Men, Devil

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.487

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Angel, Men, Devil

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.288