Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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."	Poetry
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."	Sin
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame."	Darkness, Light, Love
"An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on high;But oh! More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye."	Death, Men
"Common sense in an uncommon degree [and] is what the world calls wisdom."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Excellence, Knowledge, Men
"Friendship is like a sheltering tree."	Friends
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never."	Friends, Love
"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all."	Excellence, Love
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."	Ability, Evil, Good
"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."	Honesty, Religion, Truth
"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration."	Miscellaneous
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order;-poetry; the best words in the best order."	Age, Hope, Memory
"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself."	Ability, Excellence
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."	Age, History, Men
"Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people."	Genius
"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."	Humor
"Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."	Art, Excellence, Knowledge
"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor."	Art, Glory, Honesty
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