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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Long, Stalking, Solemn

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

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• Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sleep, Blessedness

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

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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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• 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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• All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
  The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
  And Winter slumbering in the open air,
  Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

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  Dream, Spring, Winter

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Honey, Pairs, Sole

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

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• Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Style, Rhythm, Melody

  "Expression in speech and writing". Book by Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, 1922.

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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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• All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

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  Science, Kepler, Tests

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer (1992). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)”, Bollingen

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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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• 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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• Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

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  Science, Thinking, Illustration

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632”, p.23

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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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• 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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• One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

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  Sand, Grains Of Sand, Grain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.100

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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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• 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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• Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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  Hebrew, Birth, Sublimity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1871). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.406

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Spirit, Birth

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

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• Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Necks, Albatross

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.25, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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