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Humans Quotes by Thomas de Quincey
- All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing…
- The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
- Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual…
- Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
- The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.
- There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
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