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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
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