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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. 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: The public is a bad guesser. The public is a bad guesser.
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. 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: No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. 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: Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt. Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt.
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. 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: Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings. Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence. The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Thomas De Quincey quotes: A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made. A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes. Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
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. 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: The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry. The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.
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. 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: the tyranny of the human face the tyranny of the human face
Thomas De Quincey quotes: A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter. A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: All that is literature seeks to communicate power All that is literature seeks to communicate power
Thomas De Quincey quotes: In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos. Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony. Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony.
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. 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: Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves. Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.
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. 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: Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: 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. 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.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible. I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.
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. 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: Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear. 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. Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it. It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells! Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
Thomas De Quincey quotes: The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth. The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects. 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. All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Thomas De Quincey quotes: The burden of the incommunicable. The burden of the incommunicable.

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