To sentence a man of true genius, to the... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | We Heart Quotes

Man philosopher poet School Genius

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Marriage Man

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Future Past Mind

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motive

No one does anything from a single motive.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart Mind Man

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Enthusiasm Nothing

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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