To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWithin today, tomorrow is already walking.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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