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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge