"Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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325 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the…
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light,…
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely…
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...
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All nature seems at work.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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More Abstracting Quotes
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We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs…
— William James
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I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint…
— Willem de Kooning
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The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature…
— Hilary Putnam
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The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
— Linus Torvalds
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When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end…
— Pablo Picasso
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It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic…
— William McFee
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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division;…
— Joseph Stalin
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The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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It is possible to claim only through extrapolation, by abstracting, by redrawing the man from his voyage of his own…
— Sorin Cerin
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