Children Quote by Thomas de Quincey Download Open image “Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.” — Thomas de Quincey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Eye Grief Hate Human eyes Humans Light Shrinks Sorrow
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Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells! — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning. — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
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As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
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