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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
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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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Flowers are lovely love is flower-like Friendship is a sheltering tree Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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Trochee trips from long to short From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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And to be wroth with one we loveā¦Doth work like madness in the brain.
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The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.
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