Thursday, April 29, 2010
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Coleridge on Redeeming Time
If the idle are described as killing time, [the man of methodical industry and honorable pursuits] may be justly said to call it into life and moral being, while while he makes it the distinct object not only of the consciousness, but of the conscience.
He organizes the hours, and gives them a soul; and that, the very essence of which is to fleet away, and evermore to have been, he takes up into his own permanence, and communicates to it the imperishableness of a spiritual nature.
Of the good and faithful servant, whose energies, thus directed, are thus methodized, it is less truly affirmed that he lives in time, than that time lives in him. His days, months, and years, and the stops and punctual marks in the records of duties performed, will survive the wreck of worlds, and remain extant when time itself shall be no more.
--"Essays from the Friend--Essay IV," Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge
He organizes the hours, and gives them a soul; and that, the very essence of which is to fleet away, and evermore to have been, he takes up into his own permanence, and communicates to it the imperishableness of a spiritual nature.
Of the good and faithful servant, whose energies, thus directed, are thus methodized, it is less truly affirmed that he lives in time, than that time lives in him. His days, months, and years, and the stops and punctual marks in the records of duties performed, will survive the wreck of worlds, and remain extant when time itself shall be no more.
--"Essays from the Friend--Essay IV," Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Cheerful Chaucer Chicken Mug
Back of mug reads: "Chaunticleer so free/sang merrier than a mermaid in the sea."
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