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• Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

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  Long, Stalking, Solemn

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1847). “Works”, p.145

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• Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

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  Memories, Spring, Joy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.48

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• Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
  Whether the summer clothe the general earth
  With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
  Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
  Of mossy apple tree.

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  Summer, Sweet, Apples

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.113

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• Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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  Events, Today, Spirit

  Wallenstein (1800).

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• Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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  Country, Book, Mean

  "Lives of Northern Worthies".

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• I have heard of reasons manifold
  Why Love must needs be blind,
  But this the best of all I hold,-
  His eyes are in his mind.

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  Life, Eye, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.37, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

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  Sweet, Voice, Issues

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

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• Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

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  Gratitude, Emotional, Imagination

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• Life went a-maying
  With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
  When I was young!

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  Youth, Young

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.281

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• But oh! each visitation
  Suspends what nature gave me any my birth,
  My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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  Imagination, Spirit, Birth

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 6.

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• Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

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  Strong, Women, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

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• And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
  Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

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  Honey, Pairs, Sole

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.1033, Princeton University Press

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• Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
  The glorious Sun uprist

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  Dawn, Red, Sun

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 2

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• I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

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  Christian, Prayer, Philosophy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.6

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• Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer
  And the church of St. Geryon
  Are the two things alone
  That deserve to be known
  In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

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  Two, Soul, Church

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.306, Classic Books Company

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• For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

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  Heart, Angel, Compassion

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

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• God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
  Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
  And they too have a voice, you piles of snow,
  And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

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  God, Fall, Voice

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.118

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• Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth
  A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
  Enveloping the Earth.

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  Clouds, Light, Issues

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

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• O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

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  Strong, Heart, Soul

  1802 'Dejection: An Ode', stanza 5.

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• Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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  Mind, Excess, Exciting

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.315

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• In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

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  Dark, Atmosphere, Goes On

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1930). “Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism”

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• Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

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  Sports, Toys, Talent

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• As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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  Law, Long

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• The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

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  Men, Self, Order

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• Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

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  Eye, Sun, Cameras

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