Common-Place or “Locus Communis” — a place to remember
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, among the ghostly visitor’s words to the wedding guest, driven by the agony of guilt, a warning to his listener that all of creation deserves our praise:
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He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.lines 614-617
This Jolly Beggar 