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title: "2 Pathetic Quotes By Thomas de Quincey"
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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 only by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/flowers-that-are-so-pathetic-in-their-beauty-frail-as-the-clouds-and/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/flowers-that-are-so-pathetic-in-their-beauty-frail-as-the-clouds-and-2/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

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## Other authors on Pathetic

## More by Thomas de Quincey

> [“A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/a-long-loud-and-canorous-peal-of-laughter/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/out-of-the-ruined-lodge-and-forgotten-mansion-bowers-that-are-trodden/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/it-is-most-absurdly-said-in-popular-language-of-any-man-that-he-is/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/everlasting-farewells-and-again-and-yet-again-reverberated/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [The burden of the incommunicable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/the-burden-of-the-incommunicable/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/paint-me-an-eternal-tea-pot-for-i-usually-drink-tea-from-eight-o/)

[Thomas De Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/it-is-one-of-the-misfortunes-in-life-that-one-must-read-thousands-of/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/as-is-the-inventor-of-murder-and-the-father-of-art-cain-must-have/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/surely-everyone-is-aware-of-the-divine-pleasures-which-attend-a/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/flowers-that-are-so-pathetic-in-their-beauty-frail-as-the-clouds-and/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/cows-are-amongst-the-gentlest-of-breathing-creatures-none-show-more/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/if-once-a-man-indulges-himself-in-murder-very-soon-he-comes-to-think/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/for-tea-though-ridiculed-by-those-who-are-naturally-coarse-in-their/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [“the tyranny of the human face”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/the-tyranny-of-the-human-face/)

[Thomas De Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

> [Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-quincey/allow-me-to-offer-my-congratulations-on-the-truly-admirable-skill-you/)

[Thomas de Quincey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-de-quincey/)

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