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Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
- 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.
- Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
- All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
- As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
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