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Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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Life is thorny; and youth is vain; / And to be wroth with one we love / Doth work like madness in the brain.
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The principle of Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Table Talk (1835)

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Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Letters of Charles Lamb (1888)

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.
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An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high but oh More horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.
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There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a seminal figure in English literature, a poet, literary critic, and philosopher who played a crucial role in the development of Romanticism. Born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, in 1772, his poetic work, notably "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", is celebrated for its vivid imagination and ethereal lyricism. Coleridge was also an influential literary critic, whose ideas on imagination and the relationship between the poet and nature shaped later literary theory. He collaborated with William Wordsworth on the publication "Lyrical Ballads", a landmark of Romanticism. His philosophical and theological reflections, though sometimes obscure, reveal a profound and inquisitive mind. His life was marked by health problems and opium addiction, which affected his productivity and stability. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passed away in 1834, leaving a lasting legacy in poetry and criticism.