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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.
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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Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
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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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Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.
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All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
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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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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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The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.
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Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
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Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
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The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.
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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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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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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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A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
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All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
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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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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.
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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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