"I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert."
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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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