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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.
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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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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Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities.
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here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.
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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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Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.
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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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All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
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The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.
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Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
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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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Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
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The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.
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Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.
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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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It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.
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A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
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As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.
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All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
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Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
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Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
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