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Thomas De Quincey Quotes

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All men come into this world alone and leave it alone  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) The burden of the incommunicable  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Often one’s dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) All that is literature seeks to communicate power  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) The public is a bad guesser  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed!... The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of God seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes) The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted  (Thomas De Quincey Quotes)
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