Quote#Wisdom
Those who have been led by the same truths step by step thro' the…
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Thomas Poole (16 October 1797); ed. Griggs (1956), vol. 1, p. 354.
English (original)
Those who have been led by the same truths step by step thro' the constant testimony of their senses, seem to me to want a sense which I possess — They contemplate nothing but parts — and all parts are necessarily little — and the Universe to them is but a mass of little things.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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