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Where there are no sinkings of self-abasement, no griping sense of sin and worthlessness, but perhaps the contrary, reckless confidence and self-valuing for good qualities supposed an overbalance for the sins,—there it is not necessary.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor