20 ordspråk av Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas de Quincey föddes den August 15th 1785 och dog den 8 December 1859 - English wrtiter
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 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.

 Books, we are told, propose to instruct" or to amuse." Indeed! . . . The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure," but power."

 Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

 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.

 Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state

 Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated - everlasting farewells!

 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.

 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

 In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

 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.

 Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

 Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.

 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.

 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.


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