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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Government, Two, Three

"The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions".

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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

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Inspirational, Funny, Water

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 119 (1798).

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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Reading, Light, Acting

Table Talk 17 Apr. 1823 (1835)

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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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Rocks, White, Silence

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.306

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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

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Lonely, Dark, Sight

'Fears in Solitude' (1798)

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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing, Attention, Faults

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.214

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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

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Army, Essence, Gentleman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.91

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Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, Thinking, Statistics

"On the Constitution of the Church and State".

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I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bible, Christian, Song

"The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".

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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

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Life, Leprosy, Nightmare

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 190 (1798)

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Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

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Sweet, Loss, Clouds

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: prose and verse”, p.59

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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Stars, Men, Sky

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.291

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Come, come thou bleak December wind,
And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death
And take a Life that wearies me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Blow, Wind, Tree

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2011). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Domes, Classic, Pleasure

"Kubla Khan" l. 1 (1816)

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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Sleep, Blessedness

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816). “Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The pains of sleep”, p.30

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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

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Sleep, Night, June

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

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Dream, Stars, Pain

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

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Imagination, Notion, Primaries

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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart, Angel, Dark

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.588

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For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

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Love, Teacher, Stars

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost At Midnight”

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A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Moon, Age

"Kubla Khan" l. 12 (1816)

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Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

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Girl, Morning, Children

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.119

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The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

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Stars, Dark, Sea

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 3

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And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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Nature, Forests, Hills

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2009). “The Ancient Mariner and Selected Poems (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

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Taken, Science, Space

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Born: October 21, 1772
Died: July 25, 1834
Occupation: Poet
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