Talent, Lying In The Understanding, Is Often Inhere

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherent; genius, being the
action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
Genius is the highest type of reason, talent the highest type of understanding.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of all the blessedness of sleep. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), _The Knight's Tomb_
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talent, Lying In The Understanding, Is Often Inhere

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