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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
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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