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Thomas de Quincey Quotes

Thomas de Quincey

British author and intellectual

Nationality: British
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Type: Author
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Birth: 1785-1859
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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Soft words are hard arguments.
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When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
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Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
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Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
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The more wit the less courage.
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All doors open to courtesy.
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Debt is the worst poverty.
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Despair gives courage to a coward.
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Old foxes want no tutors.
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
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Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
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He teaches me to be good that does me good.
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Good is not good, when better is expected.
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Prospect is often better than possession.
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
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A good friend is my nearest relation.
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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Lavishness is not generosity.
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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
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The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
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Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
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Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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A man is not good or bad for one action.
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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
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A book that is shut is but a block.
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
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We have all forgot more than we remember.
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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Poor men's reasons are not heard.
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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
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Today is yesterday's pupil.
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.
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The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
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Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
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