An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other objec… - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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As in respect of the first wonder we are all on the same level, how comes it that the philosophic mind should, in all ages, be the privilege of a few? The most obvious reason is this: The wonder takes place before the period of reflection, and (with the great mass of mankind) long before the individual is capable of directing his attention freely and consciously to the feeling, or even to its exciting causes. Surprise (the form and dress which the wonder of ignorance usually puts on) is worn away, if not precluded, by custom and familiarity.

A mother is a mother still;
The holiest thing alive.