He who begins by loving Christianity, better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." Aids to Reflection. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825, aphorism 25.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 9: Aids to Reflection, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2017.