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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.»
«Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.»
«Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.»
Author: Thomas De Quincey
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beverage, beverages, coarse, nervous, ridiculed, sensibilities
«If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination»
«Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated - everlasting farewells!»
Author: Thomas De Quincey
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everlasting, farewells, reverberate, reverberated, reverberates, reverberating
«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.»
«Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.»
Author: Thomas De Quincey
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breathing, cows, deprived, deprived of, gentlest, in short, passionate, profess, short I, tenderness
«Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.»
Author: Thomas De Quincey
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admirable, argues, congratulation, congratulations, splendid, Trials
«Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.»
«Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.»
Author: Thomas De Quincey