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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.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets

Never forget who rocked you as a baby. That's something...

Never forget who rocked you as a baby. That's something else you will never be able to repay her for.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about mother, contentment

The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do...

Quote by John Perkins about nation, country, people

Not only that the heroism can not be ordered, but it is...

Not only that the heroism can not be ordered, but it is impossible to repay it.

Quote by Nicolae Iorga about heroism, impossible

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