Samuel Taylor Coleridge said this quote

“ Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. ”

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Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge