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Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.
Thomas de Quincey
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Thomas de Quincey
Age: 74 †
Born: 1785
Born: August 15
Died: 1859
Died: December 8
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Thomas Penson De Quincey
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Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.
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There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach the function of the second is -- to move.
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Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.
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No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.
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All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
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Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.
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A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
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Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
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Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
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The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.
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Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
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War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
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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.
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Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
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It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
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Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
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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.
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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.
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A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.
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